Word: sopranos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Morris served notice that he will be a Teutonic god of vocal power and majesty for years to come. Proud, haughty and resolutely amoral, Morris dominated the drama as he must to give depth to the tragedy that is, ultimately, Wotan's doing. Equally impressive was the Hungarian-born soprano Eva Marton, a legitimate contender for the mantle of Birgit Nilsson with impassioned performances of Brunnhilde in Siegfried and Gotterdammerung. Awakened by Siegfried on the Valkyrie rock, Marton sang Brunnhilde's Heil dir, Sonne greeting to life in gleaming, radiant tones, and her blazing immolation scene ignited a final musical...
OTHER roles deserving note are Blumenthal's saucy Paquette and Chase's delightfully egotistical--and yet, by the end, humbled-Maximilion. Shining out from the rest, however, is Hughes Cunegonde. In her last prominent Harvard production, Hughes displays her talent as perhaps the best undergraduate soprano in recent years. She brings to Cunegonde a spectacular verve and vibrancy most noticably her awe-inspiring solo, "Glitter and be Gay." Here, she mixes her characters sorrow and desolation at being separated from Candide and at being a where with her absolute glee with the baubles and jewels given her. Her vocal strength...
Sills, formerly the leading soprano with the New York City Opera before her 1980 retirement, is now the Opera's general director. The opera star, who received an honorary Doctorate of Music from Harvard in 1974, signed copies of her 1982 autobiography and her eight albums re-released this year by Angel Records...
Among those who waited up to 20 minutes to get Sills's John Hancock was Charlotte Frazier from Needham, said she looks so much like Sills that people often confuse her for the singer. In fact, Cambridge Police Officer Jack Moynihan--who was assigned to guard the soprano from overzealous fans--said he told Frazier, "I thought you were already here" when she arrived at the Coop...
After Sills signed autographs for more than an hour, Coop General Manager James R. Argeros, presented the soprano with a plaque commemorating the day she spent at the store, saying that the memento represented the "sincere admiration for the joy, compassion, and sense of spirit you have shared with us today...