Word: mezzo-soprano
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...Gladys Swarthout, young and comely Kansas City mezzo-soprano, donned drab grey for her Metropolitan debut, smeared her face with ash-colored chalk, sang the role of the blind mother in La Gioconda. Her acting, typically operatic, was credible. Her voice, though sometimes unsteady, was agreeable...
Three singers made debuts during the Metropolitan's first week. Mezzo-soprano Eleanor La Mance of Jacksonville, Fla., a thin-legged, hollow-voiced girl, was "a musician" in the opening Manon Lescaut, sang her one aria nervously. Alfredo Gandolfi, who might have been any pot-bellied Italian tenor, was "a sergeant...
Four U. S. singers will make their Metropolitan debuts: 1) Santa Biondo, lyric soprano, born in Palermo, brought to New Haven, Conn., as a child, lately a member of the San Carlo and American Opera Companies; 2) Eleanor La Mance, Jacksonville mezzo-soprano, well known in small Italian opera houses; 3) Gladys Swarthout, Kansas City mezzo-soprano, formerly of the Chicago Opera; 4) Edward Ransome, tenor, born in Canada, U. S. citizen, known in Italy as Edoardo di Renzo...
...apparent incongruity in the former double role of Faust is alleviated by having two artists sing the separate roles, one representing the aged philosopher, and the other the young man of the world, created by Mephistopheles, the conjurer. The role of Siebel, which is usually sung by a mezzo-soprano, is sung by a tenor. The reason for the change seems very logical, that a man's role should be sung...
...published her first novel, Dancers in the Dark (in 1922); when she sang in Italy last winter. In the Washington National Opera Festival, singing Mignon, she was only making her U. S. debut. When on two later evenings in the same week she equalled her achievement in the difficult mezzo-soprano of the first, newsgatherers jostled at the stage door. They learned that her writings had furnished the wherewithal for her musical education; that even now she was writing a play for famed David Belasco to produce and her fifth novel; that her real name, which belongs to a onetime...