Word: mezzo-soprano
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...visiting Italians was buxom, blonde Ebe Stignani, whom many European critics consider the greatest mezzo-soprano of the day. She was superb in Il Trovatore, and she even lifted a drab production of La Favorita. After Favorita one critic said that Stignani could make Three Blind Mice sound like celestial music...
Falla: El Amor Brujo (the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting, with Nan Merriman, mezzo-soprano; Victor, 6 sides; the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting, with Carol Brice, contralto; Columbia, 6 sides). Reiner's version of this Debussy-scented Andalusian suite, which includes the popular Fire Dance, is less vivid than Stokowski...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5:35 p.m., ABC). Bizet's Carmen, with Mezzo-Soprano Rise Stevens, Tenor Ramon Vinay...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Arturo Toscanini, after a two-months' vacation, conducts Berlioz' Romeo and Juliet (first half). Soloists: Mezzo-Soprano Gladys Swarthout, Tenor John Garris...
Jennie Tourel's phenomenal range, from low G to high C, is three notes wider than the average mezzo-soprano's. Says Jennie of herself: "The voice can be like a violin, it can be like a viola, it can be like a cello...