Word: mezzo-soprano
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...first U.S.-born Metropolitan Opera prima donna ever to sing in the U.S.S.R., Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom, came home with some wide-eyed observations about Soviet singers, recollections of a visit to a Kremlin museum, laurels from Moscow critics and audiences for wowing them with their sexiest Carmen ever. "We could learn from Russian musicians about colleague behavior," said Blanche without blanching visibly. "Tantrums and jealousy don't seem to exist in musical circles, and the tenors were so wonderfully flattering that they all forgot their lines in the love scenes...
...dance that night. Despite major obstacles-including a Texas chorus that had a lot of trouble learning to sing in Italian-the production turned out to be topnotch, with bright sets, smooth and funny staging. The cast, mostly imported and mostly unknown in the U.S. (except for brilliant Mezzo-Soprano Giulietta Simionato). had been so ably picked by Impresario Kelly that the total effect surpassed the Met's memorable Don Pasquale, something of a standard for opera buffa. Said one opera veteran: "As of today, Dallas is on the map as an opera town along with New York...
...Zino Francescatti, Pianist Emil Gilels, Pianist Clara Haskil, Pianist Eugene Istomin, the Juilliard Quartet, Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick, Baritone George London, Violinist Nathan Milstein, Pianist Guiomar Novae's, the Obernkirchen Children's Choir, Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, the Quartette di Roma, Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Guitarist Andrés Segovia, Mezzo-Soprano Jennie Tourel, Baritone Theodor Upp-man, Duo-Pianists Vronsky and Babin, Baritone William Warfield, Soprano Frances Yeend, Harpist Nicanor Zabaleta...
...your picture accompanying this article: unless I am seriously mistaken, the singer on the far right happens to be a mezzo-soprano named Natalie Moeckel. I feel that you have done your readers an injustice by not publishing a better picture of this charming young lady...
...California-born Mezzo-Soprano Irene Dalis has had a sharp and recent rise to operatic stardom. Two years ago she was an offstage voice at the Berlin State Opera; she is now under contract with Berlin for two more seasons. She made her first successes as Princess Eboli in Verdi's Don Carlo, and the Sexton's Widow in Leos Janacek's Jenufa, made her debut at the Metropolitan last spring as Eboli, will return there for several guest appearances next season. In Europe she has been such a spectacular overnight success, notes one British critic, that...