Word: tenoritis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kept good company. Verrett, singing her first bel canto opera at the Met, was emphatic and secure as Neocle. It is a so-called pants role, written originally by Rossini for contralto, but later rescored for tenor in deference to the historic Parisian insistence that men are men and women are women. Today, the role could be sung by either tenor or contralto. The female version is more elaborate, and Conductor Schippers prefers it. Decked out in armor and an elegant Zachary Scott mustache, Verrett moved enough like a man to make the impersonation halfway acceptable. Hers...
Phrases in this music are fluid and asymmetrical, Adams responded sensitively to these qualities in a performance that neatly avoided stultifying squareness. Despite a somewhat weak first tenor section which relied on one or two singers to carry their whole burden, the Glee Club displayed a beautiful and richly blended tone with a particularly fine deep bass sound. Intonation was near perfect throughout. Their fortes were full without becoming strident and their pianissimo sound created a marvellous effect--unwavering in its pitch and tone...
Korngold took his plot from a popular romance by a minor Belgian writer named Georges Rodenbach. Korngold knew an unusual story when he saw it. The hero, Paul (Tenor John Alexander), lives sorrowfully in Bruges, with the memory of his dead wife Marie, her portrait and a long switch of her hair. Into his life comes Marietta, a saucy dancer who resembles Marie. In a long dream sequence, Paul woos Marietta. But when she teases him about the dead woman's hold on him, he strangles her with Marie's hair. He awakens cleansed of his obsession, free...
Yiddish Folk and Art Songs: Norman Janis, tenor, and Jane Myers, accompanist, Ball Shem Suite for Cello and Piano: Three Pictures of Hasidic Life Near Stufberg, pianist, Jacqueline Holfman, cellist Phillips Brooks House Partor...
...style redolent of both Anna Russell and Rhoda Morgenstern: "It's very similar to Aida. The only difference being that my lover is a girl. Well, I mean to say, the part is played by a girl. Actually, the one that I really love is not a tenor. It happens to be the bass, Maometto the terrible Turk. Neo-cle, who is from my country, he's a Greek and is a brave warrior that my father wants me to marry. She - uh, he - uh, it is played by Shirley Verrett. So it is no wonder that...