Word: mezzos
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...dinner," said the diva. "I'll eat and not sing very well." But this was no ordinary invitation, and so Mezzo-Soprano Grace Bumbry, 25, took her place at President Kennedy's table in the state dining room of the White House, dutifully nibbled at the first course and at the dessert. Then she adjourned with the other guests to the East Room and soared flawlessly through the most important recital of her career...
...Birgit Nilsson, scheduled to sing the role of Brünnhilde, had to bow out the evening before the performance. General Manager Rudolf Bing gave the role to Soprano Margaret Harshaw, who was to have sung Sieglinde; into the Sieglinde role went Soprano Gladys Kuchta. One of the Valkyries, Mezzo Gladys Kriese, was ill with tracheitis: her part went to Mezzo Ethel Greene, regularly a member of the chorus...
With absolutely no visible prompting from her newly hired pressagent, Metropolitan Opera Mezzo-Soprano Rosalind Elias, 27, supposedly betook herself to Manhattan's Bowery where, for $5, she got herself tattooed with her name and social security number (023-22-9834). Alleged reason: "In this day of possible large-scale disaster, all of us should wear identification." Alleged site of identification: the lower abdomen. Explained the sultry singer, as her pressagent showed unconcealed delight: "I couldn't think of a more inconspicuous place...
Through all this interference, Mezzo Soprano Fiorenza Cossotto and Bass Lorenzo Alvary-the opera's entire singing cast-struggled to tell Scarlatti's simple allegory of an aging Roman centurion's efforts to win a Catalan coquette long after the decline of the Roman Empire had doomed to failure any such suit. The singers struggled against impossible odds. Three more curtain-size Dali tableaux fell, each full of the usual Dalian symbols: butterflies, breasts, limp watches and legions of crutches...
...locale the mind of a child. In its cast are teapots as big as a man, cats who talk of love, squirrels who ruminate on redemption. It calls for 18 principals and a chorus of tree frogs, and one of its climactic solo passages by a Chinese cup (mezzo-soprano) consists of this mad litany, set to a foxtrot tempo...