Word: coloraturas
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...rest of the cast did her justice. Mezzo Shirley Verrett, in the travesti role of the warrior Neocle, revealed a stupefying coloratura technique and an enormous range of vocal textures. While Sills obviously paced herself carefully throughout the three acts. Verrett let loose in her first aria and blazed to the end at full capacity. She was gloriously confident, full of defiance and swagger, and poured out her ten-minute solo aria in the third act with the beauty that comes from inexhaustible strength. As it turned out, she had a mob of fans in the audience to rival Sills...
...Handel's Julius Caesar. Subsequent years brought triumphs in Massenet's Manon; Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and trilogy of queens, Roberto Devereux, Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena; and more recently, Bellini's / Puritani. Vocal fireworks are Sills' glory. She has a light, lyric coloratura so clear and swift that it seems phosphorescent. Though she is the best Manon around, her trademark has become the revival of obscure operas of the 19th century bel canto...
...mined pure gold in three trumpet display pieces accompanied by the very able Wuerttemberg Chamber Orchestra, with which he has been touring the U.S. He imbued Albinoni's Trumpet Concerto in B-flat with a bright, pointy dance of notes that was as mellifluously intricate as any Rossini coloratura aria...
Another Doctor of Music was awarded to Beverly Sills, the renowned lyric coloratura soprano and leading singer of the New York City Opera Company...
Since then, she has sung most of the roles written for lighter soprano, both lyric. and coloratura. In the process, she has come to be regarded by critics as one of the world's three or four operatic "superstars." She will soon make her debut with the Metropolitan Opera...