Word: ponse
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The trills, roulades, la-la-las and rarefied staccato eek-eeks of the coloratura are of ancient tradition. The most famed of all coloratura heroines, Lucia di Lammermoor (music also by Donizetti), goes mad, to the accompaniment of an implacable flute. That is typical. Most coloratura roles are in operas...
This week, on Saturday afternoon, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera will loop heavenward its new $13,000 gold curtain, revealing an inner curtain painted like a picture book. On the book is a likeness of Soprano Lily Pons, in red-white-&-blue uniform and cocked hat, surrounded by Alps and...
So for the first time in 22 years, the Met revives The Daughter of the Regiment, whose bubbling tunes were written by Gaetano Donizetti a century ago. It revives it specifically as an ear-tickling, eye-tickling vehicle for Coloratura Pons, who is vocally and boxofficially about the best there...
Better Lookers. As Marie, an orphan who is adopted as a mascot by the regiment, Soprano Pons beats the drum, falls in love with a peasant who turns soldier so that he may marry her. A marquise claims Marie as her niece, carries her off to a chateau to make...
This small, jolly opera might well get lost in the majestic spaces of the Met. But Viennese-born Stage Director Herbert Graf and Rumanian Scene Designer Jonel Jorgulesco, besides framing the production with its own curtain, brought the four brightly-colored sets as far down stage as possible. Ladislas Czettel...