Word: sopranos
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...been improving steadily. The height is its presentation of Wagner's four-opera masterpiece, Der Ring des Nibelungen, opera's most ambitious undertaking. All performances have been sold out, but the most clamorous demand has been for the ones in which Birgit Nilsson, the only great Wagnerian soprano today, sings Brunnhilde. Then a couple of weeks ago, people with tickets to other performances won a bonus. When Leonie Rysanek, scheduled to sing Sieglinde in Die Walkure, got sick, Met General Manager Schuyler Chapin approached Nilsson, who was free to sing the role on three nights when...
...blended tone. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra was not nearly as impressive. Ragged and insensitive string playing and poor intonation in the winds marred many of the soft choral sections as well as the expressive sole arise, Beverly Morgan, Frank. Hoffmeister, and David Evitts handled their sole chores admirably but soprano Mary Sindoni was not up to the task. Her voice sounded almost out of control at times and her phrasing was stiff and lifeless...
Mozart's Grand Mass in C-minor; Mary Sindonl, soprano, Beverly Morgan, mezzo-soprano, Frank Hoffmeister, tenor, David Evitts, bass, Harvard Glee Club, Smith Glee Club, HRO, F. John Adams, conductor; Mozart's Clarinet Quintet; David Kass, clarinet, Lynn Chang, violin, Kypros Markou, violin, William Eilberg, viola, and Craig Hogan, cello; Sanders Theater...
...bear to listen to myself," said Mabel Mercer on her 75th birthday. But every smart pop singer in the past 50 years has listened and learned from Mercer how to shape and pace a lyric. Her unique style of talking a song was developed to compensate for her failing soprano voice. Now, she says, "it's just a noise." Enough, however, to hold some 500 guests spellbound at her birthday party in Manhattan. Mabel's star pupil could not make the party, but he did not forget the singer who "taught me everything I know." Frank Sinatra sent...
Lucy Shelton, soprano and David Abramovitz, planist; songs of Schoenberg, Messiaen, Britten, and Rachmaninoff; Currier SCR; 8:30 p.m.; free...