Word: coloraturas
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MOZART: MASS IN C MINOR (Angel). Written for his bride, who sang the coloratura soprano role in its first performance, this was Mozart's last Mass before the Requiem. Wolfgang Gönnenwein conducts the South German Madrigal Choir and Southwest German Chamber Orchestra in this spacious performance, with Edith Mathis exquisitely singing the eight-minute bel canto solo, Et Incarnatus...
When Mezzo-Soprano Marilyn Horne made her New York debut in Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda four years ago, the critics were rapturous in their praise-for Joan Sutherland, the celebrated coloratura who also happened to be making her New York debut that night in the title role. Poor Marilyn was completely submerged in the flood of acclaim for Sutherland. The reviewer for the New York Times neglected to mention that she was even present, much less accounted...
Commuters at Rush Hour. With strong backing from Baritone Robert Merrill, beginning his 20th season with the Met in fine vocal fettle, and Tenor Sandor Konya, the flame-haired coloratura's performance was a masterpiece of bel canto. In the climactic Mad Scene, in which she sings a duologue with a fluttering solo flute, her glittering coloratura runs, leaps and trills won a standing ovation and 14 curtain calls...
Married. Anna Maria Alberghetti, 28, Italian-born actress (Lili in Carnival) and nightclub coloratura; and Claudio Guzman, 36, TV director (The Patty Duke Show); he for the second time; in Los Angeles...
...production, Caldwell had both Sutherland and her husband, Richard Bonynge, working at double time. The results showed it: though normally a phlegmatic actress, Sutherland made Bellini's gloriously mad Elvira anguished and giddy, impish and frenzied, wild-eyed and playful. Showing a new command of her coloratura range, Sutherland moved against shifting configurations of chorus and cast until the audience erupted in gasps and bursts of applause...