Word: mezzo-soprano
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Oddly enough, Soprano Sutherland started out in an entirely different style, hoping to be a Wagnerian singer. The daughter of a Sydney tailor, she took her first voice lessons from her mother, a "nonprofessional mezzo-soprano," won a number of local competitions and with the prize money decamped for London. At Covent Garden auditions, she learned that the Wagner repertory was not for her: "My voice really isn't heavy enough for that, and I soon understood that I'd been forcing it along a road that was wrong...
Since then, Trenton-born Gussie Seit, better known as Gloria Lane, has all but adopted the role of Carmen, and Milan's La Scala has adopted Gussie. Last week fast-rising Mezzo-Soprano Lane demonstrated what it is about her favorite role that makes Latin blood rise...
...singers now in the Met's excellent chorus rarely falter, but when one does, standard procedure is to look for a cue from a buxom, 65-year-old mezzo-soprano named Marguerite Belleri. Says she: "If I cry, they cry. If I smile or attack, they do it, too." Last week, the company's senior chorister was honored for her 50th year with...
Divorced. By Blanche Thebom, 40, Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano: Richard Metz, 47, Wall Street banker; after nine years of marriage, no children; in Juarez, Mexico...
Trovatore will be remembered for the debut of Giulietta Simionato, the great Italian mezzo-soprano who sang Azucene. Simionato is known to record collectors for her superb Rossini performances. Yet, her extraordinary range enables her to perform parts as diverse as Azucena and Santuzza with equal ease and brilliance. Her Trovatore could not have been bettered. In these days when dramatic singers with reliable techniques are rare, a good Azucena, so difficult a part, is harder to find than the "great American opera...