Word: legato
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...flair for acting, for it is truer of Tucker than of al most any other tenor that, in the Italian phrase, "the opera is in the throat." What emerges from Tucker's throat is a warm and sensuous voice, vibrant with emo tional fervor, capable of a lyrical legato or a ringing fortissimo. Tucker uses that voice with precise intelligence, lightening and darkening his tone to convey a whole range of feeling. Among the roles that he has not yet sung at the Met are two that contributed to Caruso's fame: Canio in Pagliacci...
LEONTYNE PRICE, 34, remains the most naturally gifted-and potentially the greatest-soprano now singing. Her voice, which has been compared to a Stradivarius because of its violinlike legato line, is as warm and as opulent as any in opera; her handling of it is a wonder of intelligence sharpened by instinct. No singer, not even Callas, has a more acute dramatic sense, as Soprano Price has demonstrated in her definitive portrayals of Aïda, Butterfly, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Minnie in this season's Met opener, The Girl of the Golden West. ("You can get into...
...send her soprano flooding through a house the size of the Met without straining and with the marvelously reassuring suggestion that she has power to spare; but her singing also has all the agility and the feather-lightness of a much smaller voice. Her special glory is a legato line of floating, finespun phrases. A most demanding critic passed judgment on her voice when he heard it for the first time: it gave him goose pimples, said Conductor Herbert von Karajan...
...superb technician, Jonah makes the weariest material sound fresh; he can float out a beautifully fluid legato with every note fully etched, or rasp out a low, "dirty" tone while keeping the melody under rigid control, or punch out a bright, high note and linger over it with a heavy vibrato. The arrangements are so simple that the customers, as Chicago Disk Jockey Marty Faye notes, "can sit at a table and chat and still enjoy Jonah...
Ferras' legato passages spun out in long, honeyed strands of sound; his attack in the cadenza was as crisp as vellum. Throughout, he displayed a sweeping, rhythmic flair, a fluent, coolly lustrous tone. His Brahms had about it a quality of molded passion that far older artists might envy...