Word: contraltos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ELENA NIKOLAIDI, Greek contralto, who also got her seasoning in Vienna, and made an opening-night hit as Amneris...
Debussy: Pelléas and Mélisande (Irene Joachim, soprano; Germaine Cernay, contralto; Jacques Jansen, tenor; Paul Cabanel, bass; Etcheverry, baritone; the Yvonne Gouverné Chorus and orchestra, Roger Désormiére conducting; 6 sides LP). This recording grew out of a 40th anniversary performance of Debussy's nebulous nightshade opera at the Paris Opéra-Comique in 1942. It is now released for the first time in the U.S., and Pelléas partisans will find it well worth the wait. Recording: excellent...
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder (Kathleen Ferrier, contralto; the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruno Walter conducting; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Mahler set to music these five poems written by Friedrich Rueckert just after the death of his child. They are eloquently direct-the more so as sung by expressive Contralto Ferrier. Recording: excellent...
...other news of Marion Davies, see PRESS. **For her part of Julie in Show Boat, Metro dubbed in the voice of a trained contralto, used her own expressive but small voice for the M-G-M record album...
Your Invitation to Music (Sun. i p.m., CBS). Guests: Contralto Martha Lipton; Conductor George Szell of the Cleveland Orchestra...