Word: mezzo-soprano
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...Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, starring Met Mezzo-Soprano Rise Stevens as Orpheus...
...content with their temple choir on other holy days. This year, because they could not afford both a cantor and a badly needed new organ.* they decided to buy the organ. But during choir practice recently, temple trustees were struck by a soloist who had not only a rich mezzo-soprano, but a sound knowledge of Hebrew language and ritual. Last week they decided that Mrs. Betty Robbins, an attractive, 31-year-old Massapequa housewife, should be their cantor for Rosh Hashanah. With that decision, they swept away 5,000 years of Jewish tradition...
Before 1954, there were very few U.S. musical visitors. But since ANTA (American National Theater and Academy) started an international exchange program (TIME, June 6), several top U.S. artists, e.g., the Metropolitan Opera's Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom and the Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet, have made the trip. Last week Organist E. Power Biggs was exceptionally well received, and a septet of first chair men from the Boston Symphony arrived for joint concerts and some on its own. Next month another group of Russian artists will arrive, but next fall Icelanders expect to hear U.S. Violinist Ruggiero Ricci, Pianist Julius...
...translations. English does not lend itself really well to the rapid-fire arias of Bartolo and Figaro, but in recitatives it becomes invaluable for following nuances of the plot. Apart from the language change, Mr. Goldovsky adheres to the composer's intentions. Rosina, for instance, is sung by a mezzo-soprano as Rossini first planned. And she sings his original Lesson Scene, not the customary aria interpolated for benefit for the claque. The orchestra is authentically chamber-size and the theater itself much more intimate than our standard operatic caverns...
...Manhattan production (imaginatively presented without sets or costumes by the Little Orchestra Society), Mignon Dunn, a mezzo-soprano of Dag-mar-like proportions, made a fine, feline mehitabel; diminutive Baritone Jonathan Anderson made the best-voiced cock roach in history, and a vocal quartet called the Four Heatherstones supplied bacchanalian backgrounds. This spring Columbia Records will release an archy and mehitabel album, starring Carol Channing. But Kleinsinger and Darion expect the bulk of their royalties to result from the opera fever that has broken out across the U.S. among amateur and semi-pro groups. University workshops in particular have eagerly...