Word: cherubino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Singing Octavian, the Marschallin's unripe lover, was not 27-year-old Contralto Bible's first operatic excursion in trousers: last year, she made the same kind of hit in her hurried debut as Cherubino in the City Center's fine production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. But she is beginning to hope it may be her last. She has sung the role of Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana and Mercedes in Carmen, but feels that she still has to prove that she can also sing in skirts...
Mildred Mueller as Cherubino was better in both appearance and voice than anything the Metropolitan has offered in recent years in the part. The only exception to the east in fact, might have to be made for Margaret Goldovsky, who as Susanna overacted into "cuteness" and did not display an outstanding voice...
...female parts the percentage was higher, with Mildred Mueller contributing an excellent voice to the musically important role of Cherubino and Nancy Trickey and Margaret Goldovsky, who alternated in the part of Susanna, doing very criditable jobs. As the countess, Phyllis Curtin gave an in- and- out performance, muffing badly on the most important aria of the opera, Dove Sono...
They number 19 young, talented sing ers, who expertly shake 19 operas-in-English out of their sleeves. Newest Phila delphia stunt is to have a tenor sing the incredible quasi-male operatic roles usu ally warbled by women in tights-Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, Siebel in Faust, Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, Prince Orlofsky in The Bat, Nicklausse in The Tales of Hoffmann...