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Marion Lignana Rosenberg
Marion Lignana Rosenberg
	Marion Lignana Rosenberg
Born	Marion Lignana; December 8, 1961; New Jersey, New York, ; United States
Died	November 28, 2013 (aged 51); Albany, New York, ; United States
Occupation	Writer / Journalist
Notable works	Re-visioning Callas, Maria Callas for Notable American Women

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Marion Lignana Rosenberg (New York, December 8, 1961 - New York, November 28, 2013) /ma.ʁjɔ̃ liˈɲaːna ruːsəm.ˈbærj/ was an award-winning writer, music critic, translator and an acclaimed broadcaster and journalist who blogged for WQXR Operavore and had a weekly columna called “Prima fila,” for La VOCE di New York. She contributed features, reviews, and essays about the arts to NewMusicBox, Town & Country, Newsday, Time Out New York, The Wall Street Journal, Capital New York, The Classical Review, Salon.com, Forward, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Magazine, Opera News, and Playbill. Marion’s essay “Re-visioning Callas” won a Newswomen’s Club of New York Front Page Award. She also wrote an entry on Maria Callas for Notable American Women: Completing the Twentieth Century (Harvard University Press).^[1]

Early Life[edit]

Mario was born in New Jersey to an Italian family from Piemonte. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated from Harvard with highest honors in Romance Languages and Literatures. She also studied theatre and opera history at the Università degli studi in Florence and comparative literature at U.C. Berkeley.^[2]

Career[edit]

Mario wrote hundreds of articles and did many contributions—features, profiles, advances, program notes, and reviews of recordings, performances, books, exhibitions, plays and essays about the arts to the New York Times, Newsday, Time Out New York, Salon.com, Forward, the San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Magazine, Opera News, and Playbill. She has offered commentary on WNYC’s “Soundcheck” and produced and hosted programs for WHRB in Cambridge, MA.

Her estay “Re-visioning Callas” won a Newswomen’s Club of New York Front Page Award. She wrote the entry on Maria Callas for Notable American Women: Completing the Twentieth Century (Harvard University Press). A public-health blog that she curated at Yeshiva University won two national awards, and her old blog, Vilaine fille, was singled out for praise in the national press.^[3]

At WHRB, Marion produced what was probably the first broadcast anywhere of the complete works of Giuseppe Verdi, including several then-unpublished compositions, as well as two series on the art of Maria Callas.

Marion’s writing has appeared in the programs and season books of the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, and other companies in the United States and Europe. She has contributed Italian-language articles to America Oggi and Oggi 7.

Blogosphere: Best of Blogs (Pearson) and the San Jose Mercury News, among others, hailed Marion’s blog, vilaine fille (active 2004–08) as one of the Web’s finest opera and classical music destinations.

Marion has led workshops on classical music criticism under the auspices of the National Endowment for the Arts and Columbia University. Earlier in her career, she wrote and edited best-selling Italian- and French-language instructional materials in a variety of media (print, video, audio, etc.) for a leading international publisher.

A certified translator of both Italian and French, Marion translated six non-fiction titles and recently completed work on a 150,000-word literary translation (from the French).^[4]

Death[edit]

Marion died suddenly on the night of Thursday 28, 2013 of a pulmonary embolism following Thanksgiving dinner at a friend’s house in Albany, New York. She was 51 years old.^[5]

Interesting Facts[edit]

Marion was a certified translator of both Italian and French and she doted on vintage and contemporary European pop (including Luigi Tenco, Serge Gainsbourg, Françoise Hardy, Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens, Jacques Dutronc, Lucio Battisti, Gianmaria Testa, Ivano Fossati, and Carla Bruni). Among the moderns, her great musical love was Rufus Wainwright.^[6]

Marion's family was from Piemonte. ^[7]

She speaked English, Italian and French fluently and she was eager to learn Spanish and Portuguese.

Marion news about her death came out on December 2, the same day of Maria Callas' 90th birthday celebration, who was her idol and the main subject of her studies and aclaimed articles. ^[8]

Works of Marion Lignana Rosenberg[edit]

Re-visioning Callas.

This essay, published in (the now-defunct) USItalia, won a Front Page Award from the Newswomen’s Club of New York, and represents the germ of her most acclaimed project.

Here is the judges’ citation: “Maria Callas died in 1977 at age 53, but her tempestuous legend lives on. This essay is written with the same extraordinary passion and fire that characterized the opera diva’s career. Offered up on the occasion of Callas's 80th birthday, this article acknowledges but righteously dismisses the ‘petty, salacious lore’ of the woman’s private life and celebrates the performer’s extreme dedication to her art [and] her lasting gifts to music. Whether you agree or disagree, it’s a compelling, absorbing read from start to finish. Bravo!” ^[9]

References[edit]

^ About Marion. Mondo Marion Blog by Marion Lignana Rosenberg. Published January, 2013.
^ About Marion. Mondo Marion Blog by Marion Lignana Rosenberg. Published January, 2013.
^ About Marion. Mondo Marion Blog by Marion Lignana Rosenberg. Published January, 2013.
^ Re-visioning Callas. Published by Marion Lignana Rosenberg on 2013.
^ "Marion Lignana Rosenberg, writer and opera critic dies at 51. Published by WQXR. December 2, 2013."
^ About Marion. Mondo Marion Blog by Marion Lignana Rosenberg. Published January, 2013.
^ Ci ha lasciato Marion Lignana Rosenberg, musicologa e scrittrice con il culto del bello. Published by Steffano Vaccara for La Voce di New York. December 3, 2013.
^ Marion Lignana Rosenberg (1961-2013). Published by Lawrence A. Johnson for New York Classical Review on December 3, 2013.
^ Re-visioning Callas. Published by Marion Lignana Rosenberg on 2013.