Word: milanov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...composer-critic Virgil Thomson went all out last week. He had just heard, he wrote, a voice "with a beauty that is unmatched among the sopranos of this country." The accolade went not to one of the seven singers making their debuts this season, but to bosomy Yugoslav Zinka Milanov, singing Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni for about the 20th time. Just five days earlier, another Trib critic had panned her. Wrote he: "[Her] decrease in avoirdupois [has] brought with it a disturbing lessening of her powers...
Such critical contradictions are an old familiar song to green-eyed, red-haired (dyed), 38-year-old Mme. Milanov, who for seven seasons has been the Met's most up-&-down performer. When she is good, she is very good; when she is bad, she is quite bad - and often she is both in the same evening. Her full-blown voice, rich and dark in the lower tones, sometimes climbs to an unsteady tremolo. As confused by her critics as they are by her, Milanov says : "You try to do your best to please the public, please critics, please...
Southern Slav Songs (Zinka Milanov, soprano; Sonart; 6 sides). Ingratiating melodies that sound Russian, Italian, Hungarian and Viennese in turn, sung in Serbo-Croatian. Recording: excellent...
...revival of the week was the old story about the diva who was ill and the understudy who stepped in at the last minute and scored a hit. It happened at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House: the diva was bosomy Yugoslav Soprano Zinka Milanov; the understudy, a wispy, 22-year-old New Yorker named Regina Resnik...