Word: mimis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worldly Rosalinda in Fledermaus, and brought that role, until then one of the weakest in the Met's comic hit, up to par or better. As the saucy Musetta in La Bohème, she was gay in her waltz song, movingly sympathetic with the dying Mimi in the last act. Last week she sang her first Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro. Her tone, as ever, was as pure and clear as a mountain stream; her coloratura was as neat as needlepoint. A singing actress who loves "to play on the stage"-and has found that...
...second act of La Bohème: the square outside the Café Momus, in Paris' Latin Quarter. A colorful crowd, self-conscious and unconvincingly hearty as most opera-players pretending to be real people, swarmed over the stage. The poet Rodolfo strolled in happily with his sweetheart Mimi, but his painter friend Marcello was in the dumps, and sang (in Italian): "Bring me an order of poison." He had just heard the jaunty voice of his faithless Musetta, who soon flounced in, all feathers and finery...
...that her voice has not enough weight, dramatic color and power for such heavyweight parts as Aïda, but some day she would like a try at such lyric roles as the consumptive courtesan Violetta in La Tramata, or the heart-wrecker, Manon. Bing has promised her a Mimi (the consumptive heroine of Bohème) next month...
...football weekends Gambit used supplementary techniques. He would send himself telegrams at the last minute: "Sorry cannot come darling. Viscount proposed last night and simply couldn't resist. Yacht sails for Capri tonight. Toujours gai, darling. Signed Mimi...
...football weekends Gambit used supplementary techniques. He would send himself telegrams at the last minute: "Sorry cannot come darling. Viscount proposed last night and simply couldn't resist. Yacht sails for Capri tonight. Toujours gai, darling. Signed Mimi...