Word: tessituras
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...team and several large venues in the Ottawa area. Instead of steering buyers to Ticketmaster, the Senators keep fans on its own website (and the revenue from online ads) using software by Paciolan. Jim Royce of the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles switched from Ticketmaster to Dallas-based Tessitura's software because it allows him to identify first-time buyers and cultivate them, sending restaurant suggestions and e-mail reminders before the show...
Conductors get considerable blame for young talent's biggest hurdle: the temptation to learn roles that are wrong for the individual voice. It could be a too-high tessitura, the range of notes where most of a part lies, or too heavy a draatic role. Especially in his later years, Herbert von Karajan was a great seducer of semiformed talent because he sought a clear, pure voice in almost any female role. Freni, offered the declamatory Turandot, and Rysanek, the taxing Salome, resisted. The maestro never called again...
American Bass Baritone Donald Gramm is an example of Glyndebourne's inspired casting as Falstaff. He acknowledges that his voice lacks Verdi's special melodic tessitura. But its dramatic subtleties and Gramm's own worldly manner answer Producer Jean-Pierre Ponelle's demand for a Falstaff who is "no gross giant" and fits into the rumbustious Elizabethan world he recreates. Gramm is light on his feet and a magical actor as he spins out recollections of his pageboy youth (Quand' ero paggio) and summons up what seems impossible but makes the character human: the memory...
...opera is filled with bold orchestral touches and ravishing arias made to order for an all-star cast like this. Though she does not erase memories of the Nilsson Turandot (especially in the RCA set with Tebaldi and Bjoerling), Sutherland is now the only coloratura around with the right tessitura and sufficient vocal weight-at least on records-to bring off the role of the riddle-happy princess. A delight...
...most unusual pieces were the Davies In Nomines. They ranged from the most conservative (scarcely discernible from Purcell's style) to the far more exotic. The fifth one was a screeching duet of violin and clarinet whose tessitura was in no way balanced by the later addition of piccolo. The players maintained a remarkable faithfulness to pitch, extremely difficult in view of the ranges they were forced into. The fourth In Nomine was a beautiful Debussy-like flute and harp duet over viola and cello accompaniment...