Word: coloraturas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of the human voice's limited range and flexibility, Haussermann decided to lay most stress on variety of color. In one of the four movements the voice is used in a hushed, introspective mezzo voce; in another, in light coloratura vein. There are runs, trills, even a cadenza. Commented Conductor Goossens...
...highest-paid musician in the U.S. is Singer Nelson Eddy. He has pocketed $7,000 for a single concert, generally gets $3,000-$3,500. His take last year: better than $200,000. So reported Variety last week. Second-best box office, said Variety, was petite, vivacious Coloratura Lily Pons, who averages $3,000 an appearance...
Soprano Flagstad was partly responsible. Years ago, when she sang an audition in Oslo, a baby cried in the next room. It was Astrid Varnay. Flagstad made friends with the elder Varnays, a coloratura soprano and a stage director at the Stockholm Royal Opera. Soon the Varnays moved to the U.S. When Flagstad followed, she learned that Astrid had a voice and sent her to her own teacher, Hermann Weigert...
...immensely difficult coloratura soprano aria, even for markswomanly singers, is the one in Mozart's Magic Flute in which the Queen of the Night declares that she is boiling with fury. Last week a recording of this air, advertised entirely by rumor, enjoyed a lively little sale at Manhattan's Melotone Recording Studio...
There was a variety of other characters, including a coloratura-soprano dog and three stuffed geese...