Word: mezzo-soprano
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...widely acclaimed U.S. debut in Lucrezia Borgia, RCA Victor quickly signed her to make a recording of the opera. But not quickly enough. A black-market version of her debut was already selling briskly for $25. Artists, who naturally get no royalties from the piratings, are equally irritated. Mezzo-Soprano Regina Resnik, rummaging through a record bin a few years ago, was startled to hear a recording of Wagner's Ring cycle, whose label listed a cast of singers and an opera company she had never heard of. "You know who that is singing?," she cried at the proprietor...
...When Mezzo-Soprano Marilyn Horne made her New York debut in Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda four years ago, the critics were rapturous in their praise-for Joan Sutherland, the celebrated coloratura who also happened to be making her New York debut that night in the title role. Poor Marilyn was completely submerged in the flood of acclaim for Sutherland. The reviewer for the New York Times neglected to mention that she was even present, much less accounted...
...Rossini, Handel) as well as unfamiliar ones (Piccinni, Lampugnani, Bononcini, Shield). Joan Sutherland is the heroine of the album, her brilliant voice describing perfect arabesques in the stratosphere. Richard Conrad's flowing tenor blends beautifully with hers, and there is also ample opportunity to judge the fast-rising Mezzo-Soprano Marilyn Home, whose range, power and flexibility are formidable but who is not yet in the same galaxy as Sutherland...
...more eloquent. He does not set the Dies Irae ablaze as Toscanini did, but his performance has a steady incandescence. Honors also go to London's Philharmonia Orchestra, its huge chorus, and the four soloists, Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Tenor Nicolai Gedda, Bass Nicolai Ghiaurov, and the especially lustrous Mezzo-Soprano Christa Ludwig...
...sing a song worth sixpence in the opera world of the 1930s, an American girl like Risë Stevens had to go to Europe for training, and she has always regarded that as a crying shame. Now the mezzo-soprano, 50, will have a chance to do something about it. She and Metropolitan Opera Executive Stage Manager Michael Manuel have been named general managers of the Met's new National Company, which will start touring the country full time in the fall of 1965. "We have a tremendous wealth of talent in this country, and for the first time...