Word: sopranos
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...three of the most popular works in its repertory: Puccini's La Bohème, Bizet's Carmen and Verdi's La Traviata. The stand began with Traviata at Tokyo's 4,000-seat NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai, or Japan Broadcasting Corp.) Hall. With Soprano Sutherland dying rapturously as Violetta and Tenor Alexander showing a cad's remorse as Alfredo, it was one of the brightest in a long line of grand Met opening nights...
...like L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (The Boy and the Sorceries). Described as a "lyric fantasy" and based on a story by Colette, L'Enfant is as much an operetta as a ballet. It requires a chorus, a quintet of singing narrators and a boy soprano. He plays a naughty child who escapes from his studies into a fantasy world of cavorting armchairs, dancing teapots, and a veritable zoo of cats, bats, frogs, squirrels and dragonflies...
...Milwaukee. ∙ Died. Ernst Alexanderson, 97, prolific inventor of over 320 electrical devices; in Schenectady, N.Y. Using a high-frequency alternator he developed at General Electric Co. labs, Alexanderson in 1906 made his first continuous-wave broadcast from a radio station in Brant Rock, Mass. The program featured a soprano, a violinist and a speech, startled wireless operators at sea, who had previously been able to receive only dots and dashes...
Works of Purcell, Ame, Schubert, Honegger, and Tohalkovaky; Cynthia Weinrich, Mezzo-soprano, and Priscilla Chapman, piano; Agassiz Living Room...
Songs by Haydn, Mozart, Faure, Dowland, and Schubert; Myra Durkin, soprano, Charies Fisk, piano, and Jim Meadors, lute; Currier...