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This is particularly difficult in opera, which,by its nature, is sung by experienced, maturevoices. One possible means of counteracting thedifficulty in accurately portraying Butterfly'sage is to choose a voice that is not only able toinduce extreme amounts of pathos, but alsoindividualistic enough to specify the story into abelievable context. That is to say, a voice thatis unique enough in sound to invoke sympathy fromthe audience while also lying somewhere between alyric and a forced soprano in tone...
...perhaps the greatest disappointmentwas the inability to clearly discern the wordsbeing sung, which, even if a person doesn'tunderstand a word of Italian is vital to the fullenjoyment of the opera and perhaps even moreimportant in that scenario. Although an equalquality of clarity in comparison to CD studioversions cannot be justly expected, it was shownthat certain voices were more fully comprehendiblethan others. Unfortunately, the lead roles ofButterfly (Paula Delligatti) and Pinkerton (LuisLima) were more adept at singing passages drivenby emotive tendencies than they were at filling inall those passages of recitative (sung speech ordialogue). Recitative was a significant portion ofthe...
...Lowell House Opera performs La Traviata, sung in English, in the Lowell Dining Hall at 8:30 p.m. today...
ITHACA, N.Y.--If the fat lady has not sung for the Harvard women's basketball team's season, she is certainly warming the pipes...
Ivan Y.H. Leong '99 changed the tone of the show with his performance of three Chinese pop songs originally sung by "Jackie Cheung, not Jackie Chan," as Leung explained...