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Birgit Nilsson: Opera Arias (Angel). In her first American release, rising Swedish Soprano Nilsson sings selections from Wagner and Verdi in a big, flashing, vibrant voice long on power and drive, sometimes short on dramatic intensity...
...nice epigrams ("Drosophila are so Mendelian"; "Promiscuity is the thief of time"), and various pleasant conceits. But he has also been fecund in pseudo-epigrams ("A doctor without a disease is like a poet without a passion--a mere strummer"), and little tepid fancies (an inefficient, effeminate angel who receives celestial rebukes from the sound-effects man whenever he says, "Oh, God.") Mr. Moss writes in a tone of unflagging, unconvincing elegance, less Wilde than woolly...
Look Homeward, Angel. Ketti Frings's Pulitzer Prize and Critics Award winner, less bulky and autobiographical than Thomas Wolfe's parent novel and more the portrait of a memorable family, at once riveted and riven...
...Angel on Broadway...
...Angel Voice. Much has happened to bolster her ego in the twelve years since Toscanini boosted her to fame by making her part of the great, emotion-charged concert that marked the postwar reopening of La Scala. The Maestro conceded that she sang with "the voice of an angel...