Word: coloraturas
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...chested Styrian with a grand manner and a zooming voice. At that first Bayreuth Festival in 1876 one of the Rhine maidens was a pretty young Jewess named Lilli Lehmann. Wagner wanted to adopt her but her mother, who knew the master well, objected. Lehmann was a light coloratura then and no one, least of all Wagner, suspected that she was soon to cultivate dramatic rôles and sing Brünnhilde...
Amelita Galli-Curci, 45, who still sings profitably in South Africa and India where she has no youthful coloratura rivals...
...Borgioli, German Soprano Anny Konetzni, U. S. Contraltos Kathryn Meisle and Myrtle Leonard, U. S. Sopranos Helen Jepson and Mary Elisabeth Moore. All but pretty little Mary Moore have had operatic experience. With a record of only one public performance (Baltimore. April 1933), she was engaged for five leading coloratura roles at the Metropolitan...
...Hofmann's friend Leopold Godowsky and to Marcella Sembrich. The Curtis's plump, frizzy-haired little vocal professor sat on the platform and beamed when Director Hofmann reminded the audience that she was an accomplished pianist and violinist before she became the Metropolitan Opera's prize coloratura. The day Mrs. Bok proudly distributed diplomas her son Curtis was elected president of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, successor to the late Alexander Van Rensselaer. Young Curtis Bok is quiet, well-liked. And he shares with Conductor Leopold Stokowski a passion for all things Russian...
...suit filed in Rome by Pietro Vernati, 33, estranged husband of Coloratura Luisa Tetrazzini, 62, to restrain her expenditures on the ground that she is a "megalomaniac squanderer" (TIME, July 10): rejection...