Word: lyricized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MARIO SERENI, a 29-year-old Italian born lyric baritone, has been properly praised for his fine, resonant voice and roasted for wooden acting. As Lord Hepry Ashton in Lucia di Lammermoor this season, he sang well, was no more notable for oaken attitudes than many other performers in an art form that pays little heed to Stanislavsky. While the Met, with Robert Merrill and Warren, has enough starring baritones, Sereni will be useful in such important feature roles as Marcello (Bohème) and Silvio (Pagliacci...
...painting is deaf poetry, as Simonedes suggested, then poetry is blind painting. William Blake's art was complete, neither deaf nor blind. One of the great lyric poets in the language, he was almost as outstanding an artist. And his pictures, like his poems, partake of music. Blake's figures are all dancing in compositions as supple and clear as Mozart. If they do not seem particularly real, it is because Blake saw through the real world into a clearer place. "Imagination is my world," he said, adding that "he who does not imagine in stronger and better...
Palms thrusting trustingly toward the audience, her head cocked confidently in song, Dinah gives emotional urgency to the tritest lyric; she seems still much the cheerleader she once was at Vanderbilt University (class of '38, sociology major), yet also in tune with life at 40. Last week her velveteen vibrato caressed the lyrics of Sentimental Journey and I'll Be Seeing You, and as she backed offscreen, her sign-off kiss floated out individually, so it seemed, to each of her 40 million or so viewers. A veteran of 444 quarter-hour shows and 14 full-hour revues...
...hell can ring, but they can't stop me." Then the script, something called Come to Me, by Robert Crean and Comic Peter Lind Hayes, called for tool Julie to "gasp audibly" and for demented, drifting Farley to "move forward catlike, impressed with his cleverness," shouting in a "lyric brogue": "There's a radiance to you, Miss, that shines even in the darkness...
...statuesque blonde, appeared in Philadelphia's Academy of Music for her American debut. Despite a deep chest cold, she sang a challenging program of arias from Beethoven's Fidelio and Wagnerian selections. Soprano Lövberg proved to be a sort of Flagstad in miniature, more lyric than dramatic, with a round, pure and rangy voice. Said Conductor Ormandy: "One of the greatest singers I've heard anywhere...