Word: aria
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Midgley launched into the Duke of Mantua's first big aria. "I felt fine. Every word was a joy." "La costanza tiranna del core detestiamo qual morbo crudele,"* he sang-and sucked in a deep breath to go on. In the same instant, off came the left wing of his mustache. Carried on the air stream, it disappeared down the tenor's throat...
...singing tour of Korea, Metropolitan Opera Soprano Helen Traubel was flabbergasted at the eager, enthusiastic response when she asked a G.I. audience in Seoul if she could give them "just one little Wagnerian aria." Said she: "I thought you'd prefer Betty Hutton, and I'm a far cry from that." Georgia's Governor Herman Talmadge, recently elected chairman of the Southern Governors Conference, announced that South Carolina's Governor James F. Byrnes would act as head of a conference group which will try to "present the Southern viewpoint to the nation." Said Talmadge: "Good public...
Anna Russell Sings? (Columbia). A woman's-club-type lecture-recital on how to be a concert singer that is sometimes too true to be funny. Examples include a noisy aria for singers with "resonance where the brains ought to be," art songs for singers with "artistry but no voice." modern music for tone-deaf singers ("the more off-key, the more contemporary...
...program ended with a soprano aria and a violin concerto by the Leroy Anderson of the Eighteenth Century, Frederick Telemann. Lyrical and witty, it is easy to understand why such pieces were so popular in their...
...nights later, at a second performance, Tenor Baum redeemed himself magnificently. Extra police were in the balcony to keep Florentines from violence if he fluffed again. The big test was the fourth act, where the tenor has an aria lasting ten minutes and running the entire tenor scale. As Baum began to climb to the high notes, the usually noisy galleryites were quiet as mice. When he got to the stratospheric climax and crashed out the finish, the audience applauded its hands raw, cheered itself hoarse. Tenor Baum grinned like a schoolboy...