Word: coloraturas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Among the stopping points: the Jewel Song from Faust, Mi chiamano Mimi from Boheme, Signore, ascolta from Turandot. For insatiable Moffo fans, Angel also offers an album of Coloratura Arias (Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Colin Davis) that are every bit as distinguished, with the single exception of the Lucia di Lammermoor Mad Scene: the delivery is splendid, but Moffo sounds about as mad as a hermit thrush...
...year-old macaroni maker is going into opera, he says, to "fulfill one of my fondest dreams," will sing the basso profundo role of Don Basilic in a charity performance of The Barber of Seville with a Manhattan opera company early next year. Signora Buitoni. an ex-coloratura soprano who knows all about Giovanni's booming arias, will attend his operatic debut. "After that," quipped Buitoni. "she will probably fly to Europe to avoid the noise." . . . Winging into Paris' Orly Airport, Boston Matron Rose Kennedy, 70. was forthwith thrust into a quarter-hour TV interview, proved as nimble...
...trunks to picking out her wigs. He also, says Rita, "looks after my nerves and my health" by deciding when she needs holidays, what time to break away from post-performance parties. The anonymity of his career sometimes disturbs Berger: "The public is interested in Rita Streich, the famous coloratura. The only one who seems to be interested in her husband is the income tax collector." But in a sound partnership, personal concessions can always be worked out. Says he: "Aly Khan used to need seven hours of sleep and Bettina ten. Well, Rita gets
...heeded the advice of her Australian pianist husband, Richard Bonynge, began concentrating on coloratura parts and on the little-performed 18th century Italian bel canto repertory. Now, on the living-room wall of her Kensington home, Soprano Sutherland has a picture of one of her idols: Singer Elizabeth Weichsel Billington, reputedly the mistress of George IV, who almost singlehanded brought bel canto opera to popularity in England in the early 18th century. Joan Sutherland sees no reason why she cannot perform the same service in the 20th century. "I will be happy," says she, "if I can just sing...
Music for a Spring Night (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).-The Metropolitan Opera's Coloratura Roberta Peters and Baritone Robert Merrill join Soprano Eleanor Steber and Tenor Richard Tucker in a program that includes a tribute to the late great baritone, Leonard Warren...