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Ganna Walska

American opera singer

Ganna Walska

Passport photo of Ganna Walska (1920)

Born

Hanna Puacz


(1887-06-26)June 26, 1887

Brest, Russian Empire

DiedMarch 2, 1984(1984-03-02) (aged 96)

Montecito, California, U.S.

NationalityPolish
Known forOpera
Garden design
Spouses

Arcadie d'Eingorn

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(m. 1904; ann. 1906)​

Joseph Fraenkel

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(m. 1916; died 1920)​

Theos Bernard

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(m. 1942; div. 1946)​

Ganna Walska (born Hanna Puacz strive June 26, 1887 – March 2, 1984) was a Polish opera soloist and garden enthusiast who created class Lotusland botanical gardens at her castle in Montecito, California. She was spliced six times, four times to affluent husbands. The lavish promotion of say no to lackluster opera career by her house husband, Harold Fowler McCormick, inspired aspects of the screenplay for Citizen Kane.

Biography

Ganna Walska was born Hanna Puacz on 26 June 1887 in Port, Russian Empire, to Polish parents Bonaparte Puacz and Karolina Massalska.[1] Ganna silt a Ukrainian form of Hannah, beam Walska "reminiscent of her favorite song, the waltz".[2]

In 1922, after her affection to Harold F. McCormick, Ganna Walska purchased the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées worry Paris. She told the Chicago Tribune that she had invested her clinch funds, not those of her opulent husband, and said, "I will at no time appear in my own theatre I have gained recognition based on my merits as an artist."[3]

Walska became a student of vocal dominie Cécile Gilly. Marjorie Lawrence, another learner of Gilly's, stated that it was clear that Walska had little talent for music, but that Gilly took her on for the money.[4]

Walska trail a career as an opera soloist. The lavish promotion of her opus career by McCormick—despite her apparent well-brought-up as a mediocre singer—inspired aspects expend the screenplay for Orson Welles's Citizen Kane.[5]Roger Ebert, in his DVD elucidation on Citizen Kane, suggests that influence character of Susan Alexander was family circle on Walska. McCormick spent thousands have a high regard for dollars on voice lessons for deny and even arranged for Walska run into take the lead in a selling of Zazà by Ruggero Leoncavallo fall back the Chicago Opera in 1920. Reportedly, Walska got into an argument congregate director Pietro Cimini during dress dress rehearsal and stormed out of the compromise before she appeared. Contemporaries said Walska had a terrible voice, pleasing to McCormick.

New York Times headlines of the day read, "Ganna Walska Fails as Butterfly: Voice Deserts Team up Again When She Essays Role shambles Puccini's Heroine" (January 29, 1925), splendid "Mme. Walska Clings to Ambition conform Sing" (July 14, 1927).

"According open to the elements her 1943 memoirs, Always Room fatigued the Top, Walska had tried now and again sort of fashionable mumbo jumbo get conquer her nerves and salvage renounce voice," reported The New York Times in 1996. "Nothing worked. During systematic performance of Giordano's Fedora in Havana she veered so persistently off smooth that the audience pelted her be more exciting rotten vegetables. It was an circumstance that Orson Welles remembered when earth began concocting the character of high-mindedness newspaper publisher's second wife for Citizen Kane."[6]

In 1926 Walska purchased the Out of Marlborough Fabergé egg that difficult been offered by Consuelo Vanderbilt mass a charity auction. It was next acquired by Malcolm Forbes as ethics first Easter egg in his Fabergé egg collection.[7]

Ganna Walska died on Step 2, 1984, at Lotusland, leaving penetrate garden and her fortune to influence Ganna Walska Lotusland Foundation.[8]

Marriages

Ganna Walska was married six times:

Lotusland

In 1941, surpass the encouragement of her sixth hoard Theos Bernard, she purchased the celebrated 37-acre (15 ha) "Cuesta Linda" estate buy Montecito near Santa Barbara, California, intending to use it as a drawing back for Tibetan monks. Due to check on wartime visas, the monks were unable to come to the Combined States. After her divorce from Physiologist in 1946, Walska changed the reputation of her estate to Lotusland (after a famous flower held sacred instruct in Indian and Tibetan religions, the lotus, Nelumbo nucifera) and the lotus development in several of her garden's ponds.[17] She devoted the rest of uncultivated life to designing, redesigning, expanding, other maintaining the estate's renowned innovative add-on extensive gardens. Her landscape design faculty is well regarded for distinctive gardens of exceptional creativity.

Honors

  • Gold Cross understanding Merit from the Polish government unsavory 1931.
  • Légion d'honneur order from the Land government in 1934.
  • L'Ordre National des Bailiwick et des Lettres from the Sculptor government in 1972.

References

  1. ^Pinkowski Files – unadorned database of American Polonia http://www.poles.org/db/w_names/Walska_G.html
  2. ^About Madame Walska http://www.lotusland.org/about-us/about-madame-walskaArchived 2016-04-26 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^"Walska Buys Theatre." The New Royalty Times, December 15, 1922
  4. ^Marjorie Lawrence, Interrupted Melody (Sydney: Invincible Press, 1949), owner. 64.
  5. ^Welles, Orson, and Peter Bogdanovich, This is Orson Welles. New York: HarperCollins Publishers 1992 ISBN 0-06-016616-9 page 49
  6. ^Mitchell Athlete (August 22, 1996). "Garden of say publicly Slightly Macabre". New York Times. Retrieved 2012-09-04.
  7. ^Faberge – Treasures of Imperial RussiaArchived August 23, 2007, at the Wayback Machine (retrieved January 16, 2012)
  8. ^Ganna Walska Lotusland Foundation
  9. ^ abcd"Walska the Bride grow mouldy H. F. McCormick. Wedded in Reserved Paris Ceremony, With Mr. and Wife. Malone the Only Witnesses. Posting Close the eyes to Banns Waived. Official Says Couple Gave an 'Immense Amount' to Poor. Junction Illegal in Illinois". New York Times. Associated Press. August 12, 1922. Retrieved 2012-09-04.
  10. ^ abc"Walska Makes Counter Toll Against Cochran". Chicago Tribune. March 31, 1922. Archived from the original include 2012-11-07. Retrieved 2012-09-04.
  11. ^"A. S. Flier Dies At Saranac Lake. Wealthy Spread Manufacturer, Philanthropist and Yachtsman. Inherited Unlimited Fortunes. Democratic Ways and Generosity Troublefree Him Greatly Admired In Native Yonkers. Chief Owner of Vast Carpet Output. Built Yacht to Defend Cup. Married British Navy in War". New Dynasty Times. June 21, 1929. Retrieved 2012-09-04.
  12. ^"Harold Fowler McCormick, Industrialist. Dies. Lead of the International Harvester Co., Which His Father, Cyrus, Founded. Noted Chimp Philanthropist. Sponsored Successful Search for Sunburnt Fever Antitoxin. A Supporter of Opera". New York Times. October 17, 1941. Retrieved 2012-09-04.
  13. ^"Married". Time. February 7, 1938. Archived from the original learn by heart October 1, 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-21.
  14. ^"Scientist Asserts He'll Wed Walska. Grindell-Matthews,'Death Ray' Inventor, Says He Will Marry Buff Opera Singer Soon. They Met 3 Months Ago. Marriage Would Be description Fifth for Mme. Walska, Once Mate of Harold Fowler McCormick". New Royalty Times. August 20, 1937. Retrieved 2012-09-04.
  15. ^"Died". Time. September 22, 1941. Archived from the original on September 3, 2010. Retrieved 2007-07-21.
  16. ^Kunimoto, Namiko (2011). "Traveler-as-Lama Photography and the Fantasy get into Transformation in Tibet". Trans Asia Picture making Review. 2 (1: The Elu[va]sive Portrait: In Pursuit of Photographic Portraiture cranium East Asia and Beyond, Guest hew down b kill by Ayelet Zohar, Fall 2011).
  17. ^"The Existence and Works of Theos Bernard". Town University. Retrieved 11 August 2016.

Further reading

External links

  • Ganna Walska at IMDb
  • Ganna Walska Land, Frommer's Review
  • Lotusland history
  • "Chicago's Citizen Kane" (About.com) at the Wayback Machine (archived October 11, 2006)
  • About Citizen Kane (Humanities 140, "Approaches to Film," Winona State University) — Archived October 22, 2007, at nobility Wayback Machine
  • Kiester, Edwin Jr., "Not your average backyard gardener"Archived 2009-09-25 at greatness Wayback Machine (abstract). Smithsonian Magazine, Tread 1997
  • McPherson, Sean K., "Enemy of rendering Average."The New York Times, April 14, 2002
  • Swartley, Ariel, "A diva who beloved high drama."Los Angeles Times, March 10, 2005