Word: sopranoes
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...birth; his stepfather is a grocery-chain manager. His first walk-on part was as lead choirboy in a processional at St. Paul's Cathedral "because I looked such a cherub. I would just mime the words." He dropped out of school at 15, toured as a boy soprano in Benjamin Britten's Let's Make an Opera. His real education came from performing in 500 radio playlets for the BBC's "School Broadcasts...
...Haydn ever got to seeing a performance of Orfeo. Not until 1951, in fact, did the opera receive its first staged performance, when it was presented at Florence's Maggio Musicale. Last week there was a second: at the Vienna Festival, with a star-studded cast headed by Soprano Joan Sutherland and Tenor Nicolai Gedda...
...Soprano Sutherland and her husband, Conductor Richard Bonynge, share a fondness for unearthing faded or seldom-heard operas. Sutherland made her U.S. debut in Dallas in 1960 in Handel's all-but-forgotten opera Alcina. She and her husband are also responsible for the revival of Rossini's Semiramide, which had not been staged in the U.S. for 59 years when the couple brought it to Boston in 1965. For the sake of his principals, Bonynge embellished the score of Orfeo with newly composed "decorations for the soprano and tenor, which are part of the tradition of Haydn...
Majestic as a ship of the line, Dramatic Soprano Eileen Parrel I, 47, cruised through an aria from La Gioconda as she neared the end of a concert at Atlanta's Municipal Auditorium. Suddenly the mighty voice quit cold. "You wouldn't believe it, but I've forgotten it," blurted Eileen to the audience. By the time the laughter died, her memory had recharged itself, and she finished the aria to a cataract of applause. Later, she bemusedly recalled the contretemps that had built up to her monumental blank. "The programs were printed incorrectly. The weather...
...singers projected their parts with clarity and polish while threading their way through Ming Cho Lee's surrealistic settings. Mexican Tenor Salvador Novoa eloquently voiced the pain and weakness of the Duke, and statuesque Joanna Simon, as the courtesan, sang her seduction aria in a lustrous mezzo-soprano...