Word: sopranos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most Quebec M.P.s insist on speaking French in Ottawa; Lesage gamely practiced his halting English in the House until he mastered it. In 1958 he resigned his Parliament seat to take on the job of reviving Quebec's moribund Liberal organization. He is married to a former concert soprano, Corinne Lagarde, has four children...
...profitably unprofitable day in Alabama, got an uncontested divorce and custody of the kids from "Ari." She asked no alimony. Ground: mental cruelty. Tina now has no admitted plans to wed anyone, not even her most constant recent escort, handsome young Venezuelan Moneybags Reinaldo Herrera Jr. In Milan stormy Soprano Maria Callas, 36, legally separated from her Italian husband and widely billed as the other woman in the Onassis breakup, said primly: "I can only confirm that a very tender and affectionate friendship still exists between Mr. Onassis...
...bells, vocal parts accompanied only by harps and percussion. To place the world of the fairies at a clear remove from the world of mortals, Britten wrote the part of Oberon for countertenor (Alfred Deller), a high-pitched, constricted voice never heard in modern opera, and Titania for high soprano (Jennifer Vyvyan). The music of the lovers, on the other hand, was mainly characterized by throbbing, Wagnerian chords while the music for the rustics was simple and zestful-as broadly comic as Shakespeare's own words...
Oddly enough, Soprano Sutherland started out in an entirely different style, hoping to be a Wagnerian singer. The daughter of a Sydney tailor, she took her first voice lessons from her mother, a "nonprofessional mezzo-soprano," won a number of local competitions and with the prize money decamped for London. At Covent Garden auditions, she learned that the Wagner repertory was not for her: "My voice really isn't heavy enough for that, and I soon understood that I'd been forcing it along a road that was wrong...
...heeded the advice of her Australian pianist husband, Richard Bonynge, began concentrating on coloratura parts and on the little-performed 18th century Italian bel canto repertory. Now, on the living-room wall of her Kensington home, Soprano Sutherland has a picture of one of her idols: Singer Elizabeth Weichsel Billington, reputedly the mistress of George IV, who almost singlehanded brought bel canto opera to popularity in England in the early 18th century. Joan Sutherland sees no reason why she cannot perform the same service in the 20th century. "I will be happy," says she, "if I can just sing...