Word: mezzo-soprano
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...Mezzo-Soprano Rise Stevens has been singing the role of the wanton gypsy for seven years, but never in such abandoned and sultry fashion as last week. Her new Carmen was a personal triumph-and thoroughly in keeping with the vigor of the Met's new production...
...week's end, Bing had momentarily run out of new productions, but he put on a high-spirited Marriage of Figaro, and introduced a promising American newcomer while he was about it. Cleveland-born Mezzo-Soprano Mildred Miller sang a charming, properly boyish Cherubino, stopped the show with her second-act aria, Voi Che Sapete. It was, everybody agreed, the final bright spot in the Met's sparkling week...
...musical program began with "Concerto Per Due Pianoforti Soli," by Stravinsky. It was followed by songs by Berlioz, and by excerpts from "Lea Jeux d'Enfants," by Bizet. Assisting artists were: Patricia Neway, mezzo-soprano, Arthur Gold, pianist, Robert Fizdale, pianist, and John La Montaine, accompanist...
Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (Margarete Bäumer and Ursula Richter, sopranos; Tiana Lemnitz, mezzo-soprano; Kurt Böhme, bass; chorus of the Dresden State Opera, the Saxonian State Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe conducting; Urania Records, sides LP). Soprano Bäumer (The Marschallin) has an unpleasant tremolo and Böhme (Ochs) is too growly and guttural; otherwise a middling-good performance. Recording: good...
...melodies to leave the audience humming, but Anne Trulove's first-act aria - lamenting departed Tom - beautifully sung by Soprano Elizabeth Schwarzkopf of the Vienna State Opera, came close to stopping the show. The other top voices: Tenor Robert Rounseville of the New York City Opera as Tom, Mezzo-Soprano Jennie Tourel as Baba the Turk, the sideshow bearded lady whom Tom marries as a jape...