Word: contraltos
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Diva Schwarzkopf was handsomely supported in Rosenkavalier by New York City Opera's Contralto Frances Bible and German Bass Baritone Otto Edelmann, in Don Giovanni by Metropolitan Opera Basso Cesare Siepi and Soprano Licia Albanese and the Rochester (N.Y.) Philharmonic's Conductor Erich Leinsdorf in both. Standout: Leo Kerz's imaginative, fluid settings projected behind fixed arches onto a backdrop screen. Ahead for the enterprising San Francisco Opera this season: the U.S. premiere of Sir William Walton's Troilus and Cressida (TIME, Dec. 13), and a revival of Rimsky-Korsakov...
...girl you have chosen is easier than it feels. First you catch her eye, and she draws her upper lip away from her teeth to show she notices you. Then you ask a girl nearby who that "girl in the corner" is. She smiles and says in a loud contralto...
...Choir was assisted by contralto Claire Smith, baritone Robert Simon, and six instrumentalists playing recorders, viols, lute and harp. The performance of one of Isaak's beautiful settings of the popular Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen showed three ways in which such pieces were executed in the Renaissance: the first verse by chorus alone, the second by Simon and three instruments, the third by chorus and instruments combined. (The Durer water colors of Inns bruck in the exhibition made clear why so many people hated to leave the little town.) With Simon and a lutanist at hand, I wonder...
...When Contralto Margarete Klose sang in Jenufa at Berlin's Municipal Opera, she performed excellently. But along with the applause came a shrill of whistles and a thicket of catcalls. It had just been announced that Singer Klose, like Baritone Josef Hermann before her, was switching over to Berlin's State Opera under a three-year contract. On top of the reaction of Municipal Opera's fans, its famed director, Carl Ebert, 67, himself snapped an angry farewell. Its gist: his artists should not only be good singers but good citizens. Once they have gone, Klose...
...quite sure it's happening," Contralto Anderson told friends and reporters. Apologizing for her jitters, she added: "A serious person, when beginning anything, is usually a little overanxious." With opening night past, she would be her old self in her next two performances this season (one of them scheduled for her home town of Philadelphia, this week). As for the possibility of other roles at the Met, she said in her modest, impersonal way: "One is so involved in this one, no other has been thought about...