Word: coloraturas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Roberta Peters, 29, Manhattan-born petite coloratura of the Metropolitan Opera, and Bertram Fields, 38, hotel owner: a second son; in Manhattan. Name: Bruce Erric. Weight...
...most gifted female athlete in the history of Pennsylvania's Radnor High School was a tall (5 ft. 7½ in.) brunette with a booming tennis serve and a fine basketball hook shot. After she left Radnor, the brunette became one of the best lyric-coloratura sopranos in the world. Last week a busload of teachers journeyed to Manhattan to cheer the school's most famous alumna in a new kind of starring role. Young (24), shapely (36-24-36) Soprano Anna Moffo was making her debut at the Met in Verdi's La Traviata...
Born. To Patrice Munsel, 34, airy coloratura soprano who has divided her talents among the Met (La Périchole, Die Fledermaus), the movies (Melba), TV (The Patrice Munsel Show), and Las Vegas, and Robert C. Schuler, 38, TV producer: a second daughter, fourth child; in Forest Hills, N.Y. Name: Nicole. Weight...
Handel's Xerxes was first produced in 1783 for wealthy Londoners who allowed themselves to suffer the atrocious libretto so that they might enjoy the Italianate charm of the music and an awesome display of vocal pyrotechnics. Since the Harvard Opera Guild's singers (though competent) are incapable of coloratura acrobatics, and since audiences nowadays expect more from an operatic plot, considerable attention was focused on the opera's "dramatic" element at yesterday afternoon's performance. Besides, card-playing and the consumption of ices between arias are impractical in Agassiz; therefore it was imperative that something transpire on the stage...
Divorced. By Lily Pons, 54, petite (5 ft. ½ in.), French-born coloratura soprano best known a half-generation ago: Andre Kostelanetz, 56, Leningrad-born orchestra conductor and arranger of tried and true sounds; after 20 years of marriage, no children; in Juárez, Mexico...