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...appeared in a revival of Puccini's Manon Lescaut at the City Center Opera, the Italian operatic grapevine registered a medium-sized tremor. When she topped that with a striking performance of the far more exacting role of Violetta in Traviata, it began to sprout melodious expletives. The coloratura of her Sempre libera was passionate, accurate, brilliant. She was undoubtedly a rarity: a lyric soprano with dramatic oomph and coloratura glitter, the best Violetta heard in Manhattan since the late, great Claudia Muzio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Diva | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

...Canary-voiced Patrice Munsel stands in the same relation to a first-rank coloratura that a promising West Point cadet does to General Eisenhower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 20, 1944 | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...your article about Miliza Korjus (TIME, Oct. 30) you made the statement that first-rank coloratura sopranos seldom appear oftener than once in a generation. You made no mention of Patrice Munsel, or does she come in the next generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 20, 1944 | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...Tradition. First-rank coloratura sopranos seldom appear oftener than once in a generation. The nearest thing to such a voice that this generation of U.S. operagoers is familiar with is the neat, flutelike warbling of Lily Pons. She is the capable but hardly startling descendant of a great line beginning with Jenny Lind and including Adelina Patti, Nellie Melba, Luisa Tetrazzini, Amelita Galli-Curci. Measuring Korjus against the yardstick of their memories, old-timers placed her somewhere near the Pons mark, admired the warmth, vibrancy and agility of her voice, which reminded them slightly of Melba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Marvelous Miliza | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

Though she is a past master of the whole coloratura repertory, she has probably done less opera singing than any other important singer alive. As she expresses it: "I nevaire got seriously eento eet. To be a success you haf to fought for eet, and I didn't fought." After this week's recital it looked as though Korjus was destined for a U.S. operatic future, whether she fought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Marvelous Miliza | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

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