Word: contralto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soprano Kappel sang the difficult music beautifully, enacted the crack-brained role as well as any nice person could. But people who heard the performance over the radio were fortunate not to see the plush picture-book queen that Contralto Karin Branzell made out of Klytemnestra, supposedly half-crazed by the sense of her guilt. Soprano Goeta Ljungberg looked foolish posturing in an elaborate white satin dress. Tenor Rudolf Laubenthal seemed more like a saintly Lohengrin than a man who had committed murder to get a throne. Baritone Friedrich Schorr was a dignified but middle-aged Orestes...
Rose Bampton, a comely, full-voiced contralto from Buffalo, sang Laura in La Gioconda on the company's first Tuesday-night trip to Philadelphia. In Philadelphia Contralto Bampton had many friends to applaud her, to fill her dressing room with flowers. In Philadelphia she studied and often performed with the Curtis Institute of Music and the affiliated Philadelphia Grand Opera Company...
...Detroit Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink, 71, proudly making her living on a "four-a-day" vaudeville circuit, told how she answered New York women who spoke pityingly of her "comedown." "I said, 'You! You have rich husbands. And your husbands are jumping out of ten-story windows these days. That is a comedown...
...Duchess and Casilda are rather dull at best, but the Duchess at the Hollis hardly possesses the domineering thick contralto of the Savoy tradition; and her account to her daughter Casilda of how she "tamed your great progenitor at last" is more kittenish than relentless as it should be. As for Casilda, she sings too noisily, particularly in "There Was a Time," a delicious bit of Victorian sentimentalism that should be dealt with tenderly...
...Painting by Artist J. Campbell Phillips of Manhattan. *In addition to Pons, this year's stars include Sopranos Claudia Muzio, Maria Mueller, Queena Mario; Contralto Kathryn Meisle; Tenors Dino Borgioli, Francesco Merli, Mario Chamlee; Baritones Richard Bonelli, Friedrich Schorr, Alfredo Gandolfi; Basso Ezia Pinza...