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The competitors will be judged by a stellar panel made up of mezzo-sopranos Teresa Berganza and Marilyn Horne, soprano Grace Bumbry, tenor Jon Vickers, basses Cesare Siepi and Joseph Rouleau and musicologist Gilles Cantagrel.
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Although Kelley O'Connor lists herself as a mezzo-soprano, she has a rich, incredibly deep voice that is quite unusual.
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Jan DeGaetani was a mezzo-soprano with a unique voice, range of repertoire, and persona.
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Also in Venice he met, and soon after married, the mezzo-soprano Faustina Bordoni, one of the finest singers of her time.
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His writing for contralto or mezzo-soprano, to a text by Theocritus, is surely a masterpiece.
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She became a professional mezzo-soprano.
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The mezzo-soprano also proved that she is still the only Bulgarian singer to have mastered unaccented pronunciation of German and a clear diction, so essential to the art of singing.
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( "What Will I Do Without Euridice?"), I was sold forever, even though Orfeo ed Euridice featured a so-called "trouser" lead role, a part originally written for a castrato, but these days performed by a female mezzo-soprano in drag.
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My distinguished colleagues include the legendary tenor Plácido Domingo, as well as counter-tenor David Daniels, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni, soprano Lisette Oropesa, and counter-tenor Anthony Roth Costanzo.
Danielle de Niese: Inspired to Inspire
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The late mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani makes a guest appearance in these 1973 sessions.
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It is billed as an operatic monodrama in five movements for mezzo-soprano and 10 instruments.
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Mezzo-soprano Kristen Choi sang Cherubino's aria, "Non so piú cosa son," from the first act of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro.
George Heymont: To Preserve and Protect
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The mezzo-soprano, Hilary Summers, has a dark, smoky voice - at times she almost sounds like a countertenor - and she sings René Char's surreal text with both passion and clenched-jaw control.
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The mezzo-soprano distinguished herself in a cycle of spiritual songs by various modern composers.
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The group of unaccompanied voices comprises bass, baritone, tenor, mezzo-soprano and soprano.
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Being in comfortable circumstances, highly educated, handsome, attractive, with a mezzo-soprano voice of rare beauty and great skill as a piano-forte accompanyist, she had not only suitors who took her rejection without bitterness, but hosts of friends.
Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement
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Jennie Broch (soprano leggiero), Marie Ritter-Goetze (mezzo-soprano),
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News LAWRENCE | It's always exciting to observe a young artist such as mezzo-soprano Sasha
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Instructors will include singers who enjoy international careers, such as mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Bishop, baritone Gregory Rahming and mezzo-soprano
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American Joyce DiDonato is at the top of her game in this sizzling collection of arias representing the gender-bending opera roles - called trouser roles in the biz - that mezzo-sopranos are frequently called on to play.
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For this recording, taped in 1978, Raymond Leppard gave the castrato role to mezzo-soprano Dame Janet Baker, and the alto role to countertenor James Bowman.
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We know that by the height of G.F. Handel's career, mezzo-sopranos and contraltos were finally recognized on the public stage, and music from that time on seems to fill the gap in tessitura (the general range within which the notes of a piece lie).
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Joining her was mezzo-soprano Jane Henschel, with a delightfully oleaginous rendering of Clytemnestra that brought the bloodletting adulteress to new heights of malevolence.
'Elektra' Electrifies in Madrid
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The real vocal star is Katharine Goeldner as the knight Ruggiero, giving as spectacular a demonstration of mezzo-soprano coloratura virtuosity as you are likely to hear anywhere today.
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If Handel wanted a young lover then he wrote for castrato or female mezzo-soprano.
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And with a soprano taking the role, rather than a mezzo-soprano, for once the two divas were equals in their fireworks.
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It conjures the Orpheus legend from myriad oblique angles — the long, elusive Ashbery poem the mezzo-soprano sings (Kristen Hoff, showing a clear-stream tone and superb diction) gives snapshots of the story while questioning both its very essence and whether living on in legend is really living at all.
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Mr. Corigliano, writing for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, relies on a more immediately universal approach, using the words of Czeslaw Milosz, Homer, Li Po and Yip Harburg to honor the dead.
A Mixed Record of Success in Addressing the Attacks
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There are many special people that deserve to be recognised for their efforts and achievements in the community," said Greg whose voice - known as a countertenor - is similar in range to that of a female mezzo-soprano such as the award-winning singer Katherine Jenkins.
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A singer transforming her voice from soprano to mezzo-soprano is no longer necessarily the prima donna.
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Madrigals for multiple voices are reconfigured for performance by a single mezzo-soprano and instruments - and not authentic ones, either!
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The group of unaccompanied voices comprises bass, baritone, tenor, mezzo-soprano and soprano.
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The group of unaccompanied voices comprises bass, baritone, tenor, mezzo-soprano and soprano.
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The group of unaccompanied voices comprises bass, baritone, tenor, mezzo-soprano and soprano.
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The voice had a curious quality, husky and high-pitched as if uncertain whether it was a light tenor or a throaty mezzo-soprano.
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The mezzo-soprano also proved that she is still the only Bulgarian singer to have mastered unaccented pronunciation of German and a clear diction, so essential to the art of singing.
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Abkhazian soprano Hibla Gerzmava is in full and generous voice as the conniving Vitellia, and Canadian mezzo-soprano Allyson McHardy is an earnest Annio well-paired with Franco-Algerian soprano Amel Brahim-Djellous, who is just as enchanting and beautifully-sung a Servilia here as she was at the Aix Festival in July.
Dark and Light Brilliance
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The role of the Grand Duchess is not one that we might associate with Felicity Lott; it was in fact written for a mezzo-soprano.
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Anne Sofie von Otter's mezzo-soprano is perhaps a touch ethereal for Dido, but she didn't try and compete with the orchestra, instead confidently drawing the drama to her, with a stage presence and an unfailingly intelligent musicality that anchored the human dimension of Part II.
Troy to Remember
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Mr. Corigliano, writing for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, relies on a more immediately universal approach, using the words of Czeslaw Milosz, Homer, Li Po and Yip Harburg to honor the dead.
A Mixed Record of Success in Addressing the Attacks
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Elina Garanca's voice is somewhat lighter than the other mezzo-sopranos which results in a good contrast.
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Mezzo-soprano Kristen Choi sang Cherubino's aria, "Non so piú cosa son," from the first act of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro.
George Heymont: To Preserve and Protect
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Catherine Wyn-Rogers, one of Britain's most acclaimed mezzo-sopranos and much loved by Proms audiences, sings Sir Edward Elgar's ravishing Sea Pictures.
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Patrice Jegou is a mezzo-soprano, soon to be teaching voice at the University of Lethbridge.
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Usually the three classes of voices receive different treatment, one form of instruction being used for sopranos and tenors, another for mezzo-sopranos and baritones, and a third for altos and bassos.
The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern
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Another mezzo-soprano and a tall, male counter-tenor will fill slots in two touring productions.
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My distinguished colleagues include the legendary tenor Plácido Domingo, as well as counter-tenor David Daniels, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni, soprano Lisette Oropesa, and counter-tenor Anthony Roth Costanzo.
Danielle de Niese: Inspired to Inspire
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And with a soprano taking the role, rather than a mezzo-soprano, for once the two divas were equals in their fireworks.
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The role of Offred herself is double cast, with a mezzo-soprano singing the Offred of the Republic and a lyric soprano singing the role of Offred in the time before.
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This year he offers a lineup featuring American and French works, starring the mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade in selections from Canteloube's "Chants d'Auvergne.
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In the early years of their marriage they made music together, he on the piano and she singing a fine mezzo-soprano.
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We can derive great inspirations from her success for the development of both modern mezzo-soprano and vocal art.
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We can derive great inspirations from her success for the development of both modern mezzo-soprano and vocal art.
