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...notable exception is Lulu, played by Maria Tegzes, a soprano from Holy Cross College who shines in the role. Her vocal range and control is impressive, and her dramatic interpretation of the character understated enough to make her a truly sympathetic character...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Direction and Complexity Mar Lowell House Opera 'Lulu' | 4/27/1990 | See Source »

COURTNEY PINE: THE VISION'S TALE (Island/Antilles). Young (24), gifted, black and British, saxman Courtney Pine is his country's most popular jazz performer. His third album, a mix of standards and originals, shows off a controlled lyricism and two different voices: wailing and reedy on soprano, muzzy and funky on tenor. But Pine's stylish man at the piano, Ellis Marsalis, almost steals the album...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics Voices: Apr. 2, 1990 | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

After 16 years of exile, Rostropovich had returned to his native land -- to give concerts, but more significantly to begin healing political and personal wounds. The homecoming, said his wife, soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, a former star of the Bolshoi Theater, "was very emotional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tears And Triumph in Moscow | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

...London's Crown and Anchor Tavern. The tune's highs and lows are, well, too high and low. Bass-baritone George London contends the Banner is "impossible to sing if you're sober." Opera singers have the best chance to cover the octave plus a fifth. But the soprano who starts a half-note too high will shatter glass and her hopes of auditioning for the Met by the time she gets to the "land of the free." She can forget getting deep enough for the "twilight's last gleaming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oh Say, Can You Sing It? | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

...Soprano June Anderson, opera's newest diva, evokes comparisons to Maria Callas -- for her command of bel canto as well as her tendency to stir things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: Feb. 12, 1990 | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

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