Virginia Zeani, Medalia Președintelui Universității Indiana pentru Excelență
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Spre sfârșitul anului trecut, o știre onorantă pentru România a făcut înconjurul agențiilor de presă americane și europene. Soprana Virginia Zeani, profesor emerit al Universității Indiana, a primit, pentru întreaga sa carieră universitară și artistică, cea mai înaltă distincție pe care președintele Universității din Statul Indiana (SUA) o poata acorda. Soprana, care a revenit la București în 10 mai 2012, pentru a primit Decorația regală Nihil Sine Deo din mâna Majestății Sale, este unul dintre cei mai mari muzicieni români ai secolului al XX-lea. Un film despre ceremonia de la Universitatea Indiana poate fi vizionat pe Internet la adresa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcphHmapMPs&feature=youtu.be La mulți ani, doamnă Zeani! |
Sept. 11, 2012
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie presented the President’s Medal for Excellence to Angela B. McBride, Distinguished Professor Emerita from the Indiana University School of Nursing, and Virginia Zeani, Distinguished Professor Emerita from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
IU President Michael A. McRobbie presents the President’s Medal for Excellence to Angela B. McBride.
The presentation was made during a dinner Monday celebrating academic excellence. The President’s Medal is the highest honor an IU president can bestow.
“Professors McBride and Zeani have dedicated their careers to research and creative activities that have made a transformative difference to Indiana University, its students and the world at large,” McRobbie said. “Professor McBride, who is known for her important contributions to women’s mental health, has mentored and nurtured other nurses as a professor, an author and an organizational president. She has also helped to improve the health of Indiana’s citizens through her work as a member of the Board of Directors of IU Health.
“Professor Zeani is an opera legend, known for her beautiful voice, her remarkable technique and her affecting stage presence. During her long and distinguished teaching career, she has mentored and trained many students who have gone on to become acclaimed performers. Professors McBride and Zeani represent the great community of scholars that extends far beyond the walls of the academy.”
McBride, dean of the IU School of Nursing from 1991 to 2003, was instrumental in locating Sigma Theta Tau’s International Center for Nursing Scholarship on the IUPUI campus during her presidency of that organization (1987-89) and has served as president of the American Academy of Nursing (1993-95). She is a member of the IU Health Board, chairs the National Advisory Committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Nurse Faculty Scholars program and serves on the board of the Society for Women’s Health Research.
Her honors include the Outstanding Contributions to Nursing and Health Psychology award from the American Psychological Association’s Division 38 on Health Psychology. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, and was recognized as a “Living Legend” by the American Academy of Nursing.
Virginia Zeani
A Romanian-born soprano, Zeani reigned as prima donna assoluta at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome for 25 years. She sang 69 leading roles during a career in which, performing in five languages, she moved with agility among the coloratura, lyric and dramatic soprano repertoires. She is especially admired for her interpretation of Violetta in “La Traviata,” which she sang more than 600 times.
Zeani is the recipient of more than 30 awards and orders of merit for her singing, including the Puccini Prize in 1992, the Verdi in 1975, the Commendatore of the Italian Republic and the highest honor given by Romanian royalty, the Nihil Sine Deo. In 2010, Classical Singer magazine named her Teacher of the Year.
One of her best known students, two-time Grammy Award-winning soprano and IU Jacobs School of Music lecturer Sylvia McNair, recently narrated a video about Zeani’s achievements.
The President’s Medal for Excellence recognizes, among other criteria, distinction in public service, service to IU, and extraordinary merit and achievement in the arts, humanities, sciences, education and industry. The medal itself is a reproduction in silver of the symbolic jewel of office worn by IU’s president at ceremonial occasions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcphHmapMPs&feature=youtu.be
Numeroase sunt personalitatile care reprezinta cu cinste Romania pe plan international.Si de aceasta data , geniul, talentul muzical este apreciat in afara tarii iar MAJESTATEA SA, REGELE MIHAI a premiat-o in 2012 pe soprana Virginia Zeani cu decoratia Nihil Sine Deo pentru meritul de a purta numele Romaniei pretutindeni in lume. LA MULTI ANI !
Minunat! Sunt o veche admiratoare a celebrei artiste Virginia Zeani, care este și un om deosebit, un dascăl
Minunat! Mă bucur din suflet, cum la fel m-am bucurat citind despre prețioasa decorație NIHIL SINE DEO! acordată de Majestatea Sa minunatei artiste Virginia Zeani, un om deosebit, un profesor cu har. Începem bine anul, prin doamna Virginia Zeani. Doamne, ajută!
Felicitari Doamnei Zeani, adica Professor Emerita al uneia dintre cele mai prestigioase si distinse universitati – University of Indiana at Bloomington. Cu aceasta ocazie vreau sa reamintesc ca la Universitatea din Bloomington a fost profesor si Matei Calinescu, distinsul critic, teoretician si scriitor. Inca mai profeseaza acum si doamna Christina Zarifopol, care da stralucire Catedrei din Limba Romana. Cu totii au fost si sunt monarhisti.
Peste fruntariile tarii, sunt si romani care cinstesc Romania si o fac cunoscuta in modul pozitiv.