Word: arroyos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...object of Silva's and everybody else's affections was Martina Arroyo, as Elvira. Her acting, even by the standards of opera, was on the tame side. But she provided the kind of feathery high notes, creamy middle range and sheer power that have made her one of the Met's most reliable prima donnas...
Once Rudolf had impressed himself so deeply on the Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein never had a chance of putting it into shape for the Ninth Symphony in one day. He could not be expected to get his soloists-Martina Arroyo, Lili Chookasian, Richard Lewis, and Thomas Paul-integrated with the orchestra, and he didn't. The first three movements were unsatisfactory, glossing over all the nuances of score which distinguish this work, and filled with muddy playing. The choral movement failed for lack of rehearal. The BSO recorded the Ninth with Leinsdorf only last year, and it was clearly influenced...
...century's finest contraltos, Marian Anderson, did not break into opera until 1955, when she was 52. Beyond Tenor George Shirley there are hardly any black male opera singers. But of the top eight American-born female operatic singers, four-Leontyne Price, Shirley Verrett, Martina Arroyo and Grace Bumbry-are black...