Word: sopranos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shadings. It was at its most spectacular when it surged over the orchestra in Siegmund's furious outbursts, but it was also wonderfully expressive in the quieter waters of the first act's tenderly lyrical Winterstuerme, wichen dem Wonnemond. Vickers received stirring if somewhat uneven support from Sopranos Aase Nordmo Loevberg as Sieglinde, Birgit Nilsson as Bruennhilde, and a whole troop of excellent Valkyries, but he was plainly the star of the evening. Soprano Nilsson: "I hope Vickers will be for me what Melchior was to Flagstad...
...first Forza del Destino last week, Schippers showed what he could do with an orchestra that only the week before, at the opening of Fidelia (TIME, Feb. 8), had sounded ragged and disorganized. "Tommy" Schippers had never conducted Verdi's Forza before, but he led orchestra and singers (Soprano Leonie Rysanek, Tenor Richard Tucker, both in top form) with a muscular authority that injected grand drama into every twist and turn of the tortuous plot. For Schippers, the essence of a good performance is spontaneity, and to achieve it when a performance becomes dull, he has been known...
...Book by Leonard Bernstein. 65. The season's big new star at the Metropolitan Opera is Soprano: a) Rise Stevens...
...least two-thirds of all contact-lens wearers are women, and most of these (in the 15-40 age range) take to them for vanity. A few, such as models and actresses, need them for professional reasons. Among them: Metropolitan Opera Soprano Patrice Munsel (TIME cover, Dec. 3, 1951), Hollywood's Deborah Kerr, Ann Sothern, Debra Paget. Since the lenses can be tinted, they came in handy for turning grey-eyed Nina Foch (a regular wearer anyway) into a brown-eyed Egyptian in The Ten Commandments...
...perhaps just square, except for one good touch: a huge grid of prison bars spanned the stage and rose slowly as the light came up on the liberation scene. But the rest of Director Herbert Grof's production was dull and conventional. As Leonore, the faithful wife, Norwegian Soprano Aase Nordmo Loevberg showed neither the vocal nor the dramatic power her taxing role demanded. In minor roles, Soprano Laurel Hurley and Tenor Charles Anthony were adequate as the jailer's daughter, Marzelline, and the turnkey Jacquino, and Bass Oskar Czerwenka contributed a strong, virile-voiced Jailer Rocco...