Word: sopranos
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...Unretiring Diva It's a pity that your "Brief History of: Un-Retirement" focused on sports stars [July 28]. Otherwise, it might have mentioned the celebrated case of soprano Dame Nellie Melba. The phrase "More farewells than Nellie Melba" still has currency in her native Australia. After her official farewell at London's Covent Garden in 1926, she returned to Australia two years later to sing farewell in Sydney and, over the next few months, Melbourne, Geelong, and finally Adelaide. No matter whether the arena is sporting, theatrical or musical, no one can really be said to have "done...
...year. It was a painful decision, as his parliamentary salary disappeared, along with government patronage for his art. "We didn't have a lot of money," recalls Maya, who says most of the family's income came from her mother's piano lessons and singing (Rose was a mezzo-soprano who frequently performed on national radio...
...debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in 1962 as Walther in Die Meistersinger. With a repertoire encompassing virtually every heldentenor role composed by Wagner, Thomas went on to become that rarity of the '60s and '70s -- a singer whose vocal and dramatic power could match that of the great heroic soprano of the era, Birgit Nilsson...
...from on high as Schnabel's. Today, Toscanini's interpretations sound merely coarse, the vaunted NBC Symphony distinctly second-rate. What, one wonders, was all the fuss about? Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 3 (''Eroica'') and 8. Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon). Beethoven: Symphony No. 9. Soprano Carol Vaness, Mezzo Janice Taylor, Tenor Siegfried Jerusalem, Bass Robert Lloyd; Christoph von Dohnanyi conducting the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus (Telarc). Every decade Karajan tackles the Beethoven symphonies, and these new recordings of the heroic Third and frisky Eighth complete his latest cycle. Like his previous version, issued...
...movie portraying their dynamic, increasingly prosperous Central Asian nation as a bunch of anti-Semitic, incestuous, pimping backwoods peasants would annoy the people of Kazakhstan. But try telling that to Dariga Nazarbayeva, daughter of President Nursultan Nazarbayev and one of Kazakhstan's leading cultural figures. Nazarbayeva - an accomplished mezzo-soprano who runs one of her country's TV networks - says that nothing before or since the tiny nation emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union has given Kazakhstan anything like the recognition generated by Borat Sagdiev. That would be Borat, the comic alter ego of British actor Sasha Baron...