Word: musettas
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...During the War Irela's Irishman is shellshocked, dies. Years later, when she has grown old and dumpy, Irela's faithful impresario urges her to retire gracefully. Obstinately singing Mimi in La Bohême, she beholds the audience giving its applause to a young and vivacious Musetta (Soprano Conchita Supervia). Afterward Theodore visits .her, tells her he is free. But when Irela suspects he pities her, she brusquely dismisses...
...Miss Sydney Fox, as well as another medical student and his beloved. Leaving this old machinator of a Mirakle for the disarming young people, we follow Pierre and his friends in scenes of Bohemian gayety that owe practically everything to DuMaurier and Puccini's opera. Here are Mimi and Musetta, making merry in studio bedrooms and cavorting in the park on holidays. Except for a suspicion that Musetta is a child of Keokuk and not of Paris, it is all rather touching. They should really play the Musetta Waltz from "Boheme...
...Musetta in Puccini's Boheme should be a kittenish, sweet-voiced soubrette. Italian Soprano Augusta Oltrabella, making her debut at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, was kittenish enough but her voice was frequently hard, shrill, piercing...
...love, and have seen a stubby tenor waddle forward on tiptoe to knead the arms of a diva who out-topped him by several inches; who have heard, in Bohēme, a little catch, light as a falling feather, gay as a string of beads, delivered by a Musetta under whom a property table, reinforced with iron struts, trembled, creaked, tottered. These idealists, holds Madame Leginska, should be placated. Hence, in her forthcoming opera, there will be two complete casts-one of voiceless actors who will elegantly posture and grimace on the stage, one of unseen singers, who will...