Word: lyrical
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...Road. Susanna will be Seefried's only role at the Met this season (she will sing it five times). But in signing her, the company has taken on a soprano who has a wide repertory of lyric soprano roles, e.g., Eva in Meistersinger, Micaela in Carmen, Zerbinetta in Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos. She learned more than a score of such roles in the conservatory at Augsburg, Bavaria, before she was 19, kept expanding her repertory in the opera at Aachen, where she stayed three years, and Vienna, where she has been for the past decade...
Until last week, Germany's Elisabeth Schwarzkopf was known in the U.S. only by recordings-and by reports from Europe-of her lyric soprano. Last week Manhattan music lovers packed into Town Hall for her U.S. debut, found out firsthand that she is one of the most polished sopranos alive...
...blind man and the girl. In the play's climax, Helen, played by Connaught O'Connel, stands at the edge of the stage speaking to the horse and its Greek occupants. In a voice that barely rises above a whisper, Miss O'Connel gives tremendous power to MacLeish's lyric lines...
While these sections of long lyric verse are quite effective in The Trojan Horse, some equally fine poetry in This Music Crept by me upon the Sea is not always good drama. The first third of the play is set in the tropics at a cocktail party, where long passages of meaningful poetry alternate with more prosaic conversation. The poetry itself is movingly beautiful; it fails only when it crashes against the earthy prose of the cocktail hour. The author faces with no such problem in The Trojan Horse, whose universality is well suited to the verse form...
...picket line set up by A.F.L. Theater Managers and Agents marched in front of the Lyric Theater in Baltimore when Spanish Dancer José Greco and his troupe came to town. The charge: Greco was touring without the aid of a pressagent. Although the public ignored the pickets, and the fuss got good publicity, Greco gave in, hired a pressagent before moving on to Washington...