Word: svanhild
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Structurally, the influence of light opera is apparent. Each act deals first with the peripheral characters and builds up to a big duet between Falk and Svanhild, the hero and heroine, with occasional arias for the hero (such as the celebrated tirade against tea). And each act even sports a men's chorus...
Joyce White's Svanhild was too reginal and cold to elicit sufficiently ardent passion to make her choose between a temporary lover and a permanent husband; but she has a pleasing voice. She should learn to control her unconscious mannerism of underlining important words with little negative twitches of the head. As her sister, Anna Hunt was colorless; her voice, though musical, lacked conviction. Their mother, as played by Jen Karabel, needed force; her mezzo-piano voice was not up to the two fortissimo outbursts demanded...