Word: sopranoes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Daughter of the Regiment on a bus. Then oldtime Upstager Hermione Gingold, 77, made her operatic debut in the tiny role of the Duchess of Krakenthorp and turned what should have been a brief appearance into a runaway slapstick turn. Finally, some 3,552 emotional fans gave Soprano Beverly Sills an ovation for her courage and her performance. It was barely four weeks after major but successful cancer surgery, and Sills was making the first of five performances scheduled for the next two weeks. She was 40 Ibs. lighter and, except for her voice, clearly tired. She is an indomitable...
Married. Anna Moffo, 39, veteran soprano of New York's Metropolitan Opera and occasional nonsinging movie actress; and Robert W. Sarnoff, 56, board chairman and chief executive officer of RCA; she for the second time, he for the third; in Manhattan...
...performance was led adroitly by the veteran conductor Leonard de Paur, who first gained fame in the 1940s as leader of the De Paur Infantry Chorus. The women-Dramatic Soprano Juanita Waller (Aurore) of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Mezzo Barbara Conrad (Clothilde) of Pittsburg, Texas-provided most of the vocal excitement. Waller has a pearl-luscious voice, and her time along the European operatic trail (Bremen, Düsseldorf, Naples) has obviously been well spent. Conrad, that rare operatic find, a truly sexy mezzo, scored her biggest success to date last spring singing Carmen at the Houston Spring Opera Festival...
Take your pick--choral, orchestral, recital or ensemble concerts this weekend? Keep these in mind: the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum concert in its first performance of the year; the Bach Society concert featuring mezzo-soprano Mary Frances Lubahn, the lead in last spring's Ariadne, and Hugh Wolff playing Beethoven's 3rd; and Yo-Yo Ma's cello recitals at Kirkland and Adams Houses...
...since the days of Rosa Ponselle a half-century ago has the U.S. had as beloved and popular a native operatic soprano as Brooklyn-born Beverly Sills. The Sills phenomenon stems mainly from her unmatched musical and theatrical skills. But it helps that what she has, she flaunts-tirelessly. This season is typical. Sills will give recitals in such cities as Syracuse, Boulder, and Birmingham, Ala. She will also appear as soloist with orchestras in Miami Beach, Houston, and Evansville, Ind., sing Lucia di Lammermoor with opera companies in Milwaukee and Omaha, star at the San Francisco Opera and visit...