Word: nomes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vocal glides and glitters. Soprano Dobbs sounded smooth as cashmere beside the tweedy textures of Tenor Jan Peerce and Baritone Leonard Warren. Her phrasing was always neat and true; in lyrical passages her voice floated with never an edge. In Verdi's showy old coloratura bits, e.g., Caro Nome, it glittered clear and bright as a glockenspiel in a football band. She was nervous at first-her vibrato was fast as a canary's, and she heaved her pretty bosom with each breath, which is not regarded good form-but she stopped the show several times...
...three on a kiddy broadcast called Uncle Bob's Children's Hour, and even today is not above singing the tune she sang then (The Wedding of Jack and Jill). At seven she was performing such coloratura arias as the Bell Song from Lakmé and Caro Nome from Rigoletto, and singing them with skill; at twelve she retired for further study, but three years later she was back in harness, ready for the long road ahead...
Mado Robin, 35, a petite ambassadress from the Paris Opera, opened the season as Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto, determined not to go unnoticed. During her first scene, before Rigoletto's house, she was just a demure little coloratura. But opportunity beckoned in her florid aria, Caro Nome, and Soprano Robin seized it: she unexpectedly gave out with what critics call a B "in altissimo"-up in the whistling range. The audience gasped at the piercing sound (which Conductor Fausto Cleva had specifically outlawed during rehearsals), and the critics scolded. Wrote the Examiner's Alexander Fried: "Startling...
...Same (Marlene Dietrich and Rosemary Clooney; Columbia). Testimonials in favor of love from a globetrotter and a stay-at-home. World-wise Marlene says, "It's delicious in Rome, it's delightful in Nome," while the more rustic Rosemary finds "It still fills the bill on the back porch at home...
...formidable masonry. "Singing Tosca," chirped the Daily News, "she made an excellent Mimi." But at week's end Baritone Robert Merrill got off to an impressive start in his first Rigoletto, and his divorced bride Soprano Roberta Peters, as Gilda, matched him with a Caro nome that stopped the show...