Word: mezzo-soprano
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WHEN TEENAGER ELAINE FELSHER left her East Texas home (Jacksonville, pop. 7,000) for New York City in 1946, she had dreams of singing as a mezzo-soprano at the Metropolitan Opera. To support herself while pursuing her aspirations, she found work as a "file analyst" trainee at TIME. Little did Felsher suspect that her trainee stint would blossom into "the most interesting job I could have ever hoped...
Bach Society Orchestra. Will perform Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 with violinist Melinda Hakim '97, flutist Isabel Gill '97 and keyboardist Mary Farbood '97; the East Coast premiere of John Harbison's 1991 Oboe Concerto, with oboist Daniel P. Kim '97; and Mahler's Kindertotenlider with mezzo-soprano Mary Westbrook-Geha. $7/$5 for students.Sanders Theatre, 8 p.m. Tickets are available atthe Holyoke Center Ticket Office and the SandersTheatre Box Office...
...benefit the art, but the TV age has brought a new way to become an opera star fast: get on the box. In 1986 mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli jump- started a huge international career by singing an aria on an Italian variety show. She was 19. Now Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, 29, is taking the opera world by storm. His career, which is only four years old, began when he placed second in the Cardiff Singer of the World competition, an event in which both the heats and the finals are televised. Videocassettes flew around Europe, and the phone...
Musically, the performance at the Met is excellent. Possessing a voice that is lithe and ripe, mezzo-soprano Maria Ewing was born to sing the title role, and she delivers a performance of untamed carnality. Slovak bass Sergei Koptchak is outstanding as her lecherous father-in-law, and Russian tenor Vladimir Galouzine is appropriately ardent as the lover. In the pit, conductor James Conlon and the Met orchestra rejoice in the score's raw power...
Bank of Boston Celebrity Series--presents ltalian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli. Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St., Boston. Friday...