Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abilities were evident at an early age. The daughter of a steelworker who had sung with a gospel quartet, Kathleen was the youngest of seven children, a diligent student growing up in a segregated but, as she remembers it, happy Portsmouth neighborhood. Even as a child singing in her Protestant church choir, she was something special. Remembers Voice Teacher Charles % Varney, who first heard her sing when she was eight: "It was a shock to me to hear this tiny little thing singing so beautifully. I went to her later and told her God had blessed her, and she must...
...gowns, it is impossible to imagine Battle's ever taking a letter or raising a ruler again. She is an ethereal Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff, a sparkling Zerbinetta in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos and a beguiling Susanna in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, which she will sing at the Metropolitan Opera later this month in a new production by French Director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle...
...break came in 1972, when she took time from teaching to audition for the late Thomas Schippers, then conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony; he was looking for a soprano to sing Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy. Battle got the job and her career snowballed. In 1976 she made her New York City Opera debut as Susanna. The following year, under Levine's aegis, she also bowed at the Met, in the small part of the Shepherd in Wagner's Tannhauser. By 1980 she was effortlessly hitting the high E's as Blonde...
...better than to put on their macs and picnic in the chill air of the Scottish Highlands. After the meal, they all go tramping through the heather with a pack of pesky corgis nipping at their heels. Not exactly Diana's idea of a giggle. For her the royal sing-alongs with Princess Margaret plinking the ivories just do not compare with listening to Dire Straits on her trusty Walkman...
Asked if the singers had any other gigs lined up, Levinson said, "Maybe he [Bok] will invite us in, and we'll sing for him in his office...