Word: aria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drama--and great drama--the Passion is not Otello. For its fullest effect, it should be led with precision rather than exaggeration and be given a Baroque, not Romantic treatment. One of the egregious examples of this misinterpretation was Richard Burgin's syrupy violin solo in the soprano aria "Erbarme dich." It sounded more like Liszt than Bach...
...Marcello: Introduction, Aria and Presto (A); Haydn: Quartet in B minor, Op. 64, #2 (Quinten) (W); Liszt: Hamlet (L.); Prokoviev: Sonata #4 in C minor for piano (A); Handel: Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 #9 (C); Mozart: Coronation Mass...
...stage of Milan's La Scala one evening last week, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, mused about the futility of wealth and power. The aria, Oh! de' verd'anni miei, got hearty applause. After the curtain fell on the third act of Verdi's Ernani, barrel-chested Baritone Cornell MacNeil scurried back to his dressing room, where he signed his name to a La Scala option for next season. Then he dispatched a cable to his wife in Cliffside Park, NJ.: "We tore up the pea patch, doll...
...performance after immaculate performance of the highest musicianship. Last night it seemed as though Beveridge might have trouble with his high part, but his complete mastery over his voice and unerring phrasing pulled him through. Miss Nicholas surpassed her best with a flawless reading of an enormously difficult sustained aria. Her voice had even more richness and color than in the past...
...years has been so consistently brilliant that the most one can say is that she sounds even better this year than before. Thomas Beveridge sang with his dependable musicality. And Sharon Price, breaking into the clique, provided the contrast of a more personal and emotional interpretation of her aria which followed an identical one by Miss Nicholas in the opening Bach Cantata...