Word: lieder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debut in Manhattan's Town Hall, Armenian-born Mezzo-Soprano Doloukhanova, 39, strode onstage aglitter with diamonds, and swathed in pink silk wrappings. Her program included Russian songs (Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff), Armenian folk songs, Schubert and Strauss lieder, operatic arias from Rossini and Mozart, even one English air-Cyril Scott's Lullaby. Noted for a repertory of 500 works by 100 composers, in five different languages, she displayed a solidly centered, richly colored voice of moderate power, smooth as cream in the lower register, clear and unforced in the upper one. She was able to pay out a prodigious...
...week on the West Coast, nobody thought to ask him whether he was stoking his emotional fires on Donne or Dostoevsky or Dashiell Hammett. What mattered was that he was in top vocal form, and that meant that he was giving his audiences the most moving performances of German lieder to be heard in the world today...
...years ago the Berlin Municipal Opera hired him on the spot after only a brief audition. Today he is booked solid two years in advance, has turned down offers from the San Francisco Opera, Covent Garden, La Scala. He is one of the rare singers who can perform in lieder and in opera equally well. To Fischer-Dieskau, lieder are often vocally more of a challenge than opera. "In Winterreise,'' he says, "you have more than an hour of emotion without pause. But the role of Amfortas in Parsifal amounts to only 35 minutes of singing...
...piano plunked like a loosely strung mandolin. But the audience listened to the big, barrel-chested baritone with the rapt concentration of buffs at the Metropolitan Opera. They stomped lusty approval of arias from Tannhäuser and The Barber of Seville, art songs by Delibes and Debussy, lieder by Karl Loewe and Schubert...
...high Cs that Flagstad was unable to hit in Tristan und Isolde, Flagstad could not be lured before a microphone for nearly two years. But since then she has signed up with London Records, made 23 LPs, including a complete Götter-dämmerung, lieder by Richard Strauss, Schubert, Schumann, Hugo Wolf. The latest : an excellent third act of Die Walk...