Word: coloraturas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deny that, from a social point of view, Lakmé was practically ideal: it didn't matter too much if latecomers missed the first act, or spent the last act in the bar on the Grand Tier floor-the real attraction was the second-act "Bell Song," a coloratura showpiece and practically Pons's theme song. Lakmé itself is a kind of earlier Madama Butterfly-involving the love of an Indian priest's daughter for an officer in the British Army-but far inferior in libretto and music...
...year-old Kansas City soprano, sang Gilda in Rigoletto, to the clicking of telegraph keys and the onrush of trainloads of Kansas citizenry. After three years of straining her immature voice, Marion Talley retired from opera for good. (Currently the Met is plugging immature Patrice Munsel, a Spokane coloratura who made her Met debut...
...Liberty and sang flat." The critics' enthusiasm went to the opera itself, and to the singing of two younger sopranos: 30-year-old Polyna Stoska, who sang the tricky role of the boy composer, and tiny Virginia Mac-Watters, 26, protegee of Lotte Lehmann, who darted through her coloratura notes with birdlike accuracy. The City Opera, which had planned only two performances of Ariadne, hastily scheduled more...
...student casts alternated on different evenings in singing Peter Grimes. Tenors Joseph Laderoute and William Home in the title role wrestled with the high notes which Britten had created for his good friend Tenor Peter Pears (pronounced Peers) whose coloratura-like soarings are a legend in England. The most unimpressed member of the Tanglewood audience was Composer Britten himself. Said he stiffly: "There's no use pretending it was professional. ... It was a very lively student performance...
...aria was recorded with uproarious results by the late Florence Foster Jenkins (TIME, June 16, 1941), elderly amateur coloratura, whose costumed concerts in Manhattan were attended for the laughs...