Word: coloraturas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unpacked crates frequently decorated with filled martini glasses, for in Holly's transient world, home is wherever one hangs one's hangover. Into Holly's rowdy parties troop the well-heeled and just plain heels. Among them: a rich, effeminate, gossip-column playboy; a roller-skating coloratura; Holly's cigar-and-grammar-chomping onetime Hollywood agent, who says of her, "She isn't a phony because she's a real phony"; Holly's long-abandoned middle-aged hubby from Tulip, Texas, who reveals her unphony name (Lulamae Barnes) and wonders when...
Married. Mattiwilda Dobbs, 32, coloratura soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, second Negro woman (the first Marian Anderson) to sing at the Met; and Bengt Janzon, 44, public-relations director of the Royal Opera, Stockholm; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
Patrice Munsel: When she first appeared on TV six years ago, agile Coloratura Munsel, 32, took one look at herself in the monitor and decided: "I televise like a plate of worms." Last week Patrice came back with her own show looking more like a dish for the gods. The Metropolitan Opera's pinup girl has always cut a lissome figure, and her voice fills with rills and lusty high Fs; away from the mustiness of the Met, on TV she is freer to indulge her self-confessed "innate ham" with quick changes and buoyant tunes. The first...
...different positions . . . And you don't have much time because soon Figaro will swing into Se vuol ballare, one of the best woodwork-washing pieces ever composed . . . How would I like an opera to open? With Venetian blinds-that is, music which requires delicacy and reaching-obviously a coloratura aria. Caro nome, for example, would be excellent . . . Wagner, during the Ring cycle, wants [the blinds] left dirty. The forest bird is his only Venetian-blind moment, though if one has mastered a sort of scooping motion, one can manage a few slats while Brünnhilde...
Impresario Hoffnung hopes soon to introduce his music to the U.S. live, by staging a similar production in Manhattan. Meanwhile, his record remains the funniest musical joke in years. "A breath of fresh air," said one London critic. "I admired particularly the coloratura attack and secure intonation," said another, speaking of a vacuum-cleaner player...