Word: contralto
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Elizabeth Hubbard, Mary Bartlett, and Barry Morley are all outstanding in the principal singing roles. Miss Hubbard, as Katisha, is particularly excellent, her fine contralto voice and knack for slapstick evoking enthusiastic audience approval in the patter song, "There Is Beauty in the Bellows of the Blast." The whole production was helped greatly by the crisp singing of the on-and off-stage chorus, a tribute to Musical Director Norman Shapiro...
...Washington, Contralto Marian Anderson announced that she would do a repeat performance of her famous 1939 Lincoln Memorial concert in honor of the late Harold L Ickes, who offered her the use of the Memorial steps after the D.A.R barred her from singing in Constitution Hall...
ELENA NIKOLAIDI, Greek contralto, who also got her seasoning in Vienna, and made an opening-night hit as Amneris...
Debussy: Pelléas and Mélisande (Irene Joachim, soprano; Germaine Cernay, contralto; Jacques Jansen, tenor; Paul Cabanel, bass; Etcheverry, baritone; the Yvonne Gouverné Chorus and orchestra, Roger Désormiére conducting; 6 sides LP). This recording grew out of a 40th anniversary performance of Debussy's nebulous nightshade opera at the Paris Opéra-Comique in 1942. It is now released for the first time in the U.S., and Pelléas partisans will find it well worth the wait. Recording: excellent...
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder (Kathleen Ferrier, contralto; the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruno Walter conducting; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Mahler set to music these five poems written by Friedrich Rueckert just after the death of his child. They are eloquently direct-the more so as sung by expressive Contralto Ferrier. Recording: excellent...