Word: sopranos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hour you get a vague sense of the prodigious. Certainly you feel a tremendous earnestness. Perhaps it is an earnestness without talent. Perhaps there may be a deeper talent in the music. Two new figures are prominent in the New York musical world- Barbara Kemp and Michael Bonen. Both, soprano and bass, made their debuts in the recent premier of Mona Lisa at the Metropolitan Opera House. Successive appearances in other works have confirmed the first impressions of their artistry. Kemp is an actress of power and subtlety. Vocally she is a gifted interpreter, though with a tone that...
Barbara Kemp, new soprano, made her second appearance at the Metropolitan in the first Lohengrin of the season...
Jeritza hasn't half the voice of Rosa Ponselle of the Metropolitan Company. Ponselle has one of the finest soprano voices in the world. She doesn't catch on. That, of course, is partly because she is an American, by birth, study, and career. It is to be doubted that any singer has ever made a debut with the fortunate circumstances under which Rosa Ponselle made hers. She had been a cabaret singer in New Haven, Conn. She was just out of vaudeville. Gatti Casazza thought he had found a second Farrar. For her first operatic appearance...
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