Word: mezzo
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...movie portraying their dynamic, increasingly prosperous Central Asian nation as a bunch of anti-Semitic, incestuous, pimping backwoods peasants would annoy the people of Kazakhstan. But try telling that to Dariga Nazarbayeva, daughter of President Nursultan Nazarbayev and one of Kazakhstan's leading cultural figures. Nazarbayeva - an accomplished mezzo-soprano who runs one of her country's TV networks - says that nothing before or since the tiny nation emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union has given Kazakhstan anything like the recognition generated by Borat Sagdiev. That would be Borat, the comic alter ego of British actor Sasha Baron...
With French mezzo-soprano Hélène Delavault at his side, Harvard’s new University Library Director, Robert C. Darnton ’60, proceeded to give the full house of students and professors in Radcliffe Gymnasium what he termed a “cabaret lecture...
...second selection, “Shéhérazade,” shifted the atmosphere Eastward with lightly skittering strings backing the evocative melodies of mezzo-soprano guest artist Susan Graham. Graham carried the audience through the emotional narrative suggested in her performance of three poems, Tristan Klingsor’s “Asie,” “La Flûte enchantée,” and “L’Indifférent.” First wistful, then almost conversational, Graham engaged the audience with her poignant renderings of longing...
...Octavian, mezzo-soprano Marvosh has a solid voice, although not quite the caliber of Woolf’s or Betanski’s—made especially apparent when singing alongside either actor. Marvosh’s voice becomes a bit stiff and her vibrato asymmetrical when attempting to sustain higher pitches. Marvosh’s decisive character choices not only compensate for this minor offense, but also make her the best actor of the show...
DIED. Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, 52, mezzo-soprano known for her intensely powerful voice and overwhelmingly emotional performances; after a long battle with breast cancer; in Santa Fe, N.M. Hunt Lieberson, a violist, didn't get her big break as a singer until she was 31, when controversial director Peter Sellars cast her in a summer festival production of Handel's Giulio Cesare. Throughout her career, she made unconventional choices, favoring complex roles in little-known baroque operas as well as contemporary pieces such as John Harbison's The Great Gatsby, in which she made her 1999 debut at New York...