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Women they are, but none of De Kooning's Venuses are ever likely to be zephyred toward shore on a half shell, though it is just possible some of them might have been pushed off a 40-story building. When De Kooning discovered Marilyn Monroe as a subject in the mid-1950s, and long before pop artists cottoned to her contours, he painted her as half Lilith, half maneater, with a pneumatic maw worthy of Kali...
Last week Marilyn Horne was back on stage with Soprano Sutherland in the Boston Opera's production of Rossini's Semiramide. This time there was no overlooking her. For one thing, she was five months pregnant and singing the hero's role of Arsace, an officer in the Scythian army, complete with beard and free-flowing robes. For another, she sang magnificently...
...exciting for us. It's fantastic." The audience agreed. Sutherland as Queen Semiramide was her usual dazzling self, but Horne matched her roulade for roulade, trill for trill, most enchantingly in the final act in which the two coloraturas melded voices in a breathtakingly lovely duet. Marilyn exhibited a regal voice that spans two octaves, warm and bronze-toned in the middle, vibrantly brilliant at the top. With the diction of a newscaster, she breezed through the complicated Rossini libretto as easily as a mother singing a nursery rhyme...
Place to Be Lousy. Marilyn began her voice lessons at five under the unstinting tutelage of her father, a "semiprofessional tenor" when he wasn't tending to his duties as town assessor of Bradford, Pa. When the family moved to Long Beach, Calif., Marilyn joined the Roger Wagner Chorale, later won a voice scholarship to the University of Southern California where she flunked, among other things, opera workshop for refusing to sing Carmen (she did not feel ready for the role). She spent her time instead singing avant-garde music at the Hollywood Bowl under the direction of Igor...
...always made it a point to come back to California to sing at the Hollywood Bowl "just to make sure the people of America didn't forget about me." She can rest assured. At 31, thanks to her Semiramide performance and an excellent new London recording, Presenting Marilyn Horne, she now ranks as the finest, most versatile young mezzo singing today...