Word: coloraturas
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...SAME craftsmanship extended to the female leads in the production. The role of Katasha, the aging, vindictive, bitchy noblewoman, requires a strong coloratura-type voice and a commanding stage presence, and Andrea Goodzeit provided both of these. Her voice had a pure yet vibrant timbre which eclipsed all of the other singers. She is a fine stage actress as well as a singer, and her demeanor was well suited to the role. similarly, Deborah Ward, as Yum-Yum, the child bride, had complete control of the character, although her voice was at times weak...
...music is Mozart at his best, requiring only a great conductor and a great cast to do it justice. It gets just that. Colin Davis fans the music to a fierce, steady glow. Highpoints: George Shirley's rocketlike traversal of Fuor del mar-a crippling catalogue of coloratura devices -and Elettra's two arias sung by Pauline Tinsley, a British dramatic soprano whose voice has an electric radiance that recalls Ina Souez and Ljuba Welitsch at their best...
Donizetti: Roberto Devereux (Westminster). Just as memorably melodic as Lucia but far more powerful. Beverly Sills' Queen Elizabeth has all the expected coloratura dazzle but with chest tones and a dramatic style that should raise her already formidable reputation several notches higher...
...swimmer, it's the Olympics or the English Channel. For an actor it is Hamlet. But for a coloratura soprano, the pinnacle and challenge was and is Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia de Lammermoor. It is an opera whose trills, turns and top tones defy the deftest voices. The stilted dramaturgy of the libretto can reduce the most colorful actress to a drab cardboard gray...
...artists and audience that made for something special. "It was a fun palace," says Peerce. "An alfresco thing, where you asked a soprano to hold your Coke bottle while you went out and did your death scene. The peacocks never snouted me down. They liked tenors, it was only coloratura sopranos they hated...