Gerald, I’ve added two photos on photobucket.com under the Album Name “GALLI-CURCI”. I’m a bit inept at this and can’t seem to get those photos to relate to the cinematreasures.org website. Ken, hope you enjoy these as well. I’ll shortly be adding the vintage ad for movies playing at the G-C Theater as well as, hopefully, copies of G-C’s handwritten letters that I own. Randall
I have two snapshots of the Galli-Curci Theater made several years ago but apparently this website is not accepting any more photos at this time. I also have a vintage newspaper ad featuring movies playing at the Galli-Curci Theater possibly from the 1940’s or 1950’s. The diva herself owned a nearby home called Sul Monte (“on the mountain”) which is now private property but which I managed to explore a bit before I was politely but firmly asked to leave. However, I believe concerts are sometimes held there even today. Over the years I have made a practice of visiting sites associated with Amelita Galli-Curci, one of which was her home in Rancho Santa Fe, California (which I also photographed) before she relocated to La Jolla where she ultimately died. OPERA NEWS photographed her in this last home for an article about her in 1963, the year she died, a photocopy of which I luckily possess (does anyone have the original?). I knew the man, William Seward, who visited her in California while she was alive and whose insightful interview of her still survives on compact disk (Romophone label). Another friend left me two of her handwritten letters to him and a beautiful browntown portrait signed by her. I have been fascinated and delighted by Galli-Curci’s voice since I first heard it in college many years ago. No voice soothes me more. I own ALL her extant recordings, also on Romophone, including unissued ones (7 CDs). I collect photographs of her, the most fascinating perhaps being ONE OF HER AND HER HUSBAND MAKING A RECORDING INTO AN ACOUSTICAL HORN. Does anyone know if there is any moving picture footage? I’ve never discovered any. I would be willing to EXCHANGE materials mentioned above with any seriously interested party.
Just posting this so I’ll be notified when someone replies. -Randall-
Is anyone reading my messages? I haven’t heard from you! I spent a lot of time scanning several G-C items and would love to share them.
-Randall-
If you can’t access the three G-C pictures I’ve posted so far, send me your e.mail addresses and I’ll send them directly to you.
Try this link to view the photos: .com
Gerald, I’ve added two photos on photobucket.com under the Album Name “GALLI-CURCI”. I’m a bit inept at this and can’t seem to get those photos to relate to the cinematreasures.org website. Ken, hope you enjoy these as well. I’ll shortly be adding the vintage ad for movies playing at the G-C Theater as well as, hopefully, copies of G-C’s handwritten letters that I own. Randall
I have two snapshots of the Galli-Curci Theater made several years ago but apparently this website is not accepting any more photos at this time. I also have a vintage newspaper ad featuring movies playing at the Galli-Curci Theater possibly from the 1940’s or 1950’s. The diva herself owned a nearby home called Sul Monte (“on the mountain”) which is now private property but which I managed to explore a bit before I was politely but firmly asked to leave. However, I believe concerts are sometimes held there even today. Over the years I have made a practice of visiting sites associated with Amelita Galli-Curci, one of which was her home in Rancho Santa Fe, California (which I also photographed) before she relocated to La Jolla where she ultimately died. OPERA NEWS photographed her in this last home for an article about her in 1963, the year she died, a photocopy of which I luckily possess (does anyone have the original?). I knew the man, William Seward, who visited her in California while she was alive and whose insightful interview of her still survives on compact disk (Romophone label). Another friend left me two of her handwritten letters to him and a beautiful browntown portrait signed by her. I have been fascinated and delighted by Galli-Curci’s voice since I first heard it in college many years ago. No voice soothes me more. I own ALL her extant recordings, also on Romophone, including unissued ones (7 CDs). I collect photographs of her, the most fascinating perhaps being ONE OF HER AND HER HUSBAND MAKING A RECORDING INTO AN ACOUSTICAL HORN. Does anyone know if there is any moving picture footage? I’ve never discovered any. I would be willing to EXCHANGE materials mentioned above with any seriously interested party.