Word: contraltos
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Though Wieland is still considered an "irreverent traitor" by oldtimers, he is venerated by all who work for him. Says Contralto Lili Chookasian, who sang Erda in Rheingold: "I would do anything for him. Why, I even took a curtain call wearing that black leather costume that opened up to display two enormous leather breasts with threeinch nipples. And I didn't even blush...
...throne, who was spirited away as a baby, after her father's assassination. For reasons of state, the prince wants to marry her. Two fisherwomen immediately claim to be the princess, fall all over themselves seeking the prince's affection. The real princess (beautifully sung by Yugoslav Contralto Ruza Pospis) finally emerges, and the prince sails off with her to everlasting happiness...
...sardonic. The "tra-la-lee" in Reveille celebrates a roll call when "dead comrades muster," and after St. Anthony preaches to the fishes, "the carp's still a glutton, and sermon forgotten." Felix Prohaska conducts the orchestral accompaniment for the Swiss baritone, Heinz Rehfuss, and the Canadian-born contralto, Maureen Forrester, who divide the songs and the honors between them...
...Marian Anderson, contralto...
...Warner Brothers' My Fair Lady, the voice on the sound track won't be Audrey's. It belongs to Marni Nixon, the ghostess with the mostest. A girl with a rubber range, Marni is a redheaded, blue-eyed lyric soprano who can slip into a contralto and sing in the accents of any unmusical star. She was also the voice of Natalie Wood in West Side Story, of Deborah Kerr in The King and I, of Janet Leigh in Pepe...