Word: coloraturas
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Manhattan's voice connoisseurs gathered in Carnegie Hall this week to witness an important event: the U.S. debut of a famous coloratura soprano. Curiously, the singer had not been near an opera house in almost a decade. To the U.S. public she was known chiefly as the lush blonde whose lighthearted warbling had been the feature of the lavish Hollywood musical The Great Waltz. Her name is Miliza Korjus (pronounced Mlit'sa Kor'-yoos...
Charles Boyer knows that a certain actress died with a fortune in jewels hidden away in her attic, and a beautiful daughter hidden away in Italy studying coloratura soprano. Killing two birds with one stone, he sweeps the beautiful daughter off her feet, marriages her, and goes back with her to her childhood home in London in which, you guessed it, the jewels are hidden...
...plummet his voice from coloratura soprano to Chaliapin bass. But-it is not his voice that enthralls his fans, it is his lingo. For Tin Tan is a master of pocho, and pocho, a bilingual bastardy of anglicized Mexican,† is as funny to Mexican ears as the English of a stage Englishman is to Americans. Pocho, which literally means something that has lost its color, has come to stand for the thousands of Mexicans near or across the border who have ruined their Spanish without ever quite learning English. To aficionados Tin Tan is high satire...
...Kathleen Roche be saved, especially. All good Savoyards should pray that the brilliant coloratura-soprano, who has the lead in all the operettas, does not fall victim to the grippe that has already decimated the voices of Bertram Peacock and Florenz Ames, two of the three best in the male cast...
...going to sound very much like, and sell even better than, its second. Every performance (reflecting the current boom in Manhattan show business) was a sellout. Many foreign singers would continue to be missed. Only new singer to raise a ripple of anticipation was the 18-year-old coloratura Patrice Munsel (TIME, Nov. 22), scheduled for a debut in Mignon. The Met's brightest stars this year, as last, were its conductors. The first week included an exquisitely polished Tristan (Sir Thomas Beecham), a brilliant Rosenkavalier (George Szell...