Word: voce
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...betrothed, Elvira, who goes insane. Soprano Sutherland's triumph last week was that she made her audience overlook the opera's gothic absurdities and focus on its moments of real beauty, including Elvira's pre-wedding aria, "Son vergin vezzosa," and her splendid "Qui la voce sua soave," which introduces a mad scene every bit as effective as the more famous one in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. Her voice was precise, agile, light-textured and luminous. The London Observer praised her "extraordinary beauty of tone,'' and the Daily Mail found in her performance...
...seemed to me too fragile in places and too brusque in others. The employment of a Debussy pianissimo with generous use of the pedal is not always ideally suited to the baroque style. Yet Mr. Sachs showed he could play firmly and resonantly if he chose, even in mezza voce. The orchestral sections were rhythmical and well phrased...
Topping tried to get some data to Kemper by asking rambling, fact-studded questions. Then, while the Red cameramen changed film, Topping moved close to Kemper and quickly briefed him sotto voce on the case and the State Department's protests to the Communists. The major was clearly relieved that he and his men had not been forgotten, and Topping had his exclusive story-one that both the A.P. and his countrymen could view with pride...
...only defect of the program was Josh White, Junior. The Young White is a boy of sixteen with a fine voce and an indifferent guitar. Although he has improved considerably in the last year, he still must make up his mind whether he is too be a folk-singer like his father or a pop singer of the order of Billy Eckstine. He is unhappily caught between the two genres, with talent enough for either. He sings well, and his naivete comes as a pleasant contrast to his father, one of the least naive men around...
...Chopin Fantaisie was conceived in fine rhapsodic style and its tragic message deeply felt and admirably projected. Occasionally a melody could have been done in a more cantabile way instead of in the mezza voce style chosen by the artist, but generally the dynamic framework was carefully chosen to set off the piece's structure...