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  • Cult mezzo Magdalena Kozena and silvery soprano Carolyn Sampson sound gorgeous, but are on the cool side as Paris and Cupid respectively.
  • Opera is music, drama, literature, dance, theater and art as a comprehensive integration of art, usually by the Aria, Recitative, ensemble, chorus, Overture, Intermezzo , dances and other components.
  • On this occasion the always quoteworthy mezzotintist, James Huneker, wrote: Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
  • The competitors will be judged by a stellar panel made up of mezzo-sopranos Teresa Berganza and Marilyn Horne, soprano Grace Bumbry, tenor Jon Vickers, basses Cesare Siepi and Joseph Rouleau and musicologist Gilles Cantagrel.
  • ‘All You Need is Wood’ ended with an unexpected mezzo-relievo.
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  • The American mezzo has devised an enterprising programme for her solo debut. Times, Sunday Times
  • It discusses not only these and other panels, but also the artist's productions in the recently developed medium of mezzotint.
  • Although Kelley O'Connor lists herself as a mezzo-soprano, she has a rich, incredibly deep voice that is quite unusual.
  • She negotiates the most incredibly florid passages with imperious authority, and she sings with the passion that other mezzos reserve for Amneris or Eboli.
  • This summer she returns to her mezzo roots to play Carmen, a role that brings her career full circle.
  • It wasn't just that she was trained as a soprano when her voice was a mezzo - which led to a very public hiatus in her career. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is the first exhibition devoted to Ruskin's engagement with printmaking examining his use of various methods, etching, woodcut, mezzotint and steel and copper engraving.
  • The third is the _Mezzo-trillo_, or the short _Shake_, which is likewise known from its Name. Opinioni de' cantori antichi e moderni. English
  • Beh, in pratica si tratta di uomo che lascia delle scatole in mezzo a Moon Avenue. No Fat Clips!!! : Moon Avenue Box Man
  • Elsewhere there were wonderful moments of limpidity – as the first movement reaches its development, and in the intermezzo above all. Lucerne Festival Orchestra – review
  • Tutto all 'intorno del muro vi erano degli scaffali quali si vedono ordinariamente negli archivi ad altezza d' uomo, e nel mezzo della stanza v 'era un altro scaffale simile o tavola per tenervi scritture, e tale da potervi girare intorno. The Care of Books
  • Jan DeGaetani was a mezzo-soprano with a unique voice, range of repertoire, and persona.
  • Also in Venice he met, and soon after married, the mezzo-soprano Faustina Bordoni, one of the finest singers of her time.
  • Pianist and composer William Bolcom and Joan Morris, mezzosoprano, have been concertizing together as husband and wife since 1972.
  • Not only will mezzotinting give you stunning effects, but you'll also get more detail and a sharper image.
  • She could copy prints, so that at a little distance you would scarcely know that the copy in stumped chalk was not a bad mezzotinto engraving. The Newcomes
  • This, of course, refers to mezzotinting on copper; on steel it yields much larger editions.
  • The Petrarchian Sonnet is not quite as successful, Cliburn's dynamics favoring mezzo-forte and forte a little too much throughout.
  • His writing for contralto or mezzo-soprano, to a text by Theocritus, is surely a masterpiece.
  • She became a professional mezzo-soprano.
  • Shannon some mezzotinto prints of myself, and some more of my friends here, such as Burke, Johnson, Reynolds, and Colman. The Life of Oliver Goldsmith
  • INSIDER TIP: Po recently launched an intermezzo meaning between lunch and dinner menu, so food is available all day long, and all items are $12 and under. Michelle Won: My Trip to the Nutcracker and Dinner at Po, Which Ended Up Being Nutcracker Part 2
  • The mezzo-soprano also proved that she is still the only Bulgarian singer to have mastered unaccented pronunciation of German and a clear diction, so essential to the art of singing.
  • The intaglio printmaking techniques are engraving, drypoint, etching, aquatint, stipple, mezzotint and are discussed in part two of this article.
  • Men belch out at superdramatic volumes (nothing ever sounds natural), and mezzos sound nothing short of ridiculous, their voices denatured by the attempt to imbue the music with highbrow seriousness and high volume.
  • Mezzo Marie Lenormand was sweetly swaggering as the Fox, who woos and wins the Vixen; baritone Joshua Bloom was pure testosterone as Harašta; and mezzo Melissa Parks was imposing as the Forester's impatient wife and the Owl for which she wore a cagelike garment flecked with feathers. The Beauty of the Beasts
  • Nuuk is rich with undertones, tidal washes, deep swathes of velvet mezzotint, patient soundings, submarinal echoes.
  • There was plenty of jaunty energy in the folkish Intermezzo, enriched by bare fourths and fifths.
  • Soprano Emily Albrink's pert, pearl-toned Susanna may have been the liveliest, most affectionately detailed performance of the evening, but the coltish Cherubino of mezzo Brandy Lynn Hawkins, the amusingly frowzy Marcellina of mezzo Cynthia Hanna and the winkingly flamboyant turn by tenor Jesús Daniel Hernandez as Basilio all made fine impressions. In performance: WNO's young artists in "Nozze"
  • The duet for soprano and mezzo and its glittering cabaletta are distinguished by daring harmonics and challenging pyrotechnics.
  • The feathery pianissimo lightness in the upper strings against the mezzo forte melody lower down is perfectly weighted.
  • Included in the exhibition are largescale portraits by such court painters as Sir Peter Lely as well as miniatures and mezzotints.
  • There are eight sopranos, four mezzos, one counter-tenor, three tenors, seven baritones, and two basses.
  • ‘The Only Son,’ from 1947, is actually a little scena for mezzo, tenor, and baritone, with piano.
  • Now head chef at Cornell's Phi Kappa Psi house, he recently prepared an ornate meal for parents' weekend: salmon baked with chipotle remoulade, an intermezzo of blood orange sorbet, duck roasted with tart cherry sauce on pecan rice and three chocolate mousses. Dude, Those Candied Walnuts Go Great at a Kegger
  • ( "What Will I Do Without Euridice?"), I was sold forever, even though Orfeo ed Euridice featured a so-called "trouser" lead role, a part originally written for a castrato, but these days performed by a female mezzo-soprano in drag. Jackie Fuchs: Why Opera Rocks
  • Similar to mezzotint, aquatint is a technique to produce prints with the effect of printing rather whole areas than just lines.
  • A few days before that concert, the faculty member slated to sing the mezzo role had cancelled, and Hanslowe was called to substitute.
  • Page view page image: in character when played piano or mezzo-forte; the flute also, in its lowest register, recalls the pianissimo trumpet tone. Principles of orchestration
  • There are many genres where prints of the highest quality, such as seventeenth-century French portraits, early lithographs and mezzotints are ridiculously cheap.
  • She heads a classy cast, with soprano Eglise Gutierrez in the ditsy coloratura role of Fairy Godmother and the mezzo Alice Coote in rapturous, unblemished voice, a stupendous Prince Charming. Cendrillon; Rinaldo – review
  • Unlike all the other men, he had no private books, no mezzotints of family grandees, no clutches of letters from admonitory father or teary mother or whispery girl back home. Son of a Witch
  • Despite her fine plush mezzo, she's unalluring in this role, with muddy diction and risible franglais. Times, Sunday Times
  • His technique was mezzotint, the hybrid drypoint technique in which a texture is applied to a prepared etching plate, and the image is painstakingly burnished in.
  • This picture has been recently wretchedly engraved in mezzotinto; all that is in the picture firm and hard, is in the print soft, fuzzy, and disagreeable. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843
  • Sandu's art is on paper executed with one, or a mixture, of the following techniques: etching, aqua forte, aquatint, dry point and mezzotint.
  • It's more allegretto than andante, like a Brahms symphonic intermezzo.
  • [3] The passamezzo, passy-measure or half-measure was a popular Days of the Discoverers
  • The doors, surrounded by a delicate architrave, are divided into six equal panels each of which bears in mezzo-relievo (half relief) the obverse or reverse of some coin of ancient Greece.
  • There is a great variety of intaglio methods, the oldest being engraving, as well as etching, drypoint, soft-ground etching, aquatint, mezzotint, stipple engraving, and the crayon manner.
  • For the foot-tapping, we must turn to the folksy Balkan dance melodies, the bumpy 'New Age' arrangement of a passamezzo by Mainerio and Pickett's bongo-enhanced version of a chanson by Le Jeune. AvaxHome
  • Te Deums; six psalms; twenty anthems; three German operas; one English opera; thirty-nine Italian operas; two Italian serenatas, two English serenatas; one Italian intermezzo, "Terpsichore"; four odes; twenty-four chamber duets; ninety-four cantatas; seven French songs; thirty-three concertos; nineteen English songs; sixteen Italian airs; twenty-four sonatas. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
  • Anne Sofie von Otter is a stunningly good choice as Sesto, a young nobleman who Handel wrote as either soprano or tenor, so to cast such an intelligent mezzo is an imaginative step.
  • My distinguished colleagues include the legendary tenor Plácido Domingo, as well as counter-tenor David Daniels, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni, soprano Lisette Oropesa, and counter-tenor Anthony Roth Costanzo. Danielle de Niese: Inspired to Inspire
  • The late mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani makes a guest appearance in these 1973 sessions.
  • It is billed as an operatic monodrama in five movements for mezzo-soprano and 10 instruments.
  • The Petrarchian Sonnet is not quite as successful, Cliburn's dynamics favoring mezzo-forte and forte a little too much throughout.
  • Heather Jenkins displayed a dizzyingly high soprano in the fairy lullaby; mezzo Kristin Vienneau brought sparkle to other fairy solo moments. A Remarkably Inventive A Cappella Premiere
  • Mezzo-soprano Kristen Choi sang Cherubino's aria, "Non so piú cosa son," from the first act of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro. George Heymont: To Preserve and Protect
  • There are eight sopranos, four mezzos, one counter-tenor, three tenors, seven baritones, and two basses.
  • The mezzo-soprano, Hilary Summers, has a dark, smoky voice - at times she almost sounds like a countertenor - and she sings René Char's surreal text with both passion and clenched-jaw control.
  • The mezzo-soprano distinguished herself in a cycle of spiritual songs by various modern composers.
  • His decision to work in mezzotint was partly perverse, as it was an antiquated medium so labor-intensive that it was only rarely practiced.
  • The group of unaccompanied voices comprises bass, baritone, tenor, mezzo-soprano and soprano.
  • Overall, her agile mezzo is in fine fettle, and her physical presence and vocal colours well tailored to text and musical line. Times, Sunday Times
  • Being in comfortable circumstances, highly educated, handsome, attractive, with a mezzo-soprano voice of rare beauty and great skill as a piano-forte accompanyist, she had not only suitors who took her rejection without bitterness, but hosts of friends. Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement
  • Gross, a master of etching in charge of graphics at the Slade School of Art, later helped Daphne Reynolds to develop mezzotints, the deep, velvety blacks created with home-made ink.
  • It is interesting though because he alludes to mezzotinting, a printmaking process developed in the 17th century.
  • He was skilled in the art of a number of different printing techniques such as woodcuts, lithographs and mezzotints.
  • Jennie Broch (soprano leggiero), Marie Ritter-Goetze (mezzo-soprano), Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time
  • In the Neapolitan and Sicilian provinces, parishes were scattered, bishoprics penniless, and priests insubordinate: more than half the ecclesiastics convicted of felonies in 1874 served the cross in the Mezzogiorno.
  • That, if you have - if taking a group of people who are singing - an average cross-section of that population - you're going to find sopranos, altos, mezzos, tenors, baritones, and basses.
  • The school offered classes on lithography, etching, drypoint, mezzotint and wood engraving until the Groat Depression forced it to close its doors after only a year.
  • The high notes just came, and now I am able to sing the equivalent of a female high mezzo and some of the female high soprano notes as well.
  • In the 18th century mezzotints were issued in a highly artificial and codified manner - proofs before all letters, proofs with scratched letters - and aimed therefore at a sophisticated collecting fraternity.
  • There's nothing wrong with that (the soprano and mezzo who sang in the premiere were Verdi's original Aïda and Amneris).
  • The other big question mark was Olga Borodina, whose vocal and physical glamour is real but not the sort one associates with the technical bravura and pinpoint articulation needed for one of Rossini's resourceful mezzo minxes.
  • ‘As was the case in all of Verdi's early operas,’ writes Said with a wink, ‘Aïda is about a tenor and a soprano who want to make love but are prevented by a baritone and a mezzo.’
  • Intermezzo is a sublingual, smaller-dose formulation of zolpidem. Tracey Marks, M.D.: Don't Sleep and Drive: How to Avoid Complex Sleep Behaviors
  • The portrait appears to have been painted to mark the Royal Academy's move to purpose-built premises in Somerset House in 1780 and to publish the message abroad Green was commissioned to make a fine mezzotint of the subject.
  • News LAWRENCE | It's always exciting to observe a young artist such as mezzo-soprano Sasha WN.com - Articles related to Singapore Sun Festival 2009: Asia's Leading Arts and Lifestyle Festival Opens Today!
  • Instructors will include singers who enjoy international careers, such as mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Bishop, baritone Gregory Rahming and mezzo-soprano BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content
  • Elaine Wagner's mezzo voice sounds weary, but she's laughing a little - at his expense, no doubt.
  • He was skilled in the art of a number of different printing techniques such as woodcuts, lithographs and mezzotints.
  • Mango sorbet was the intermezzo; a heart shaped chocolate garnish adding a second Valentines note to the meal. Karen Dalton-Beninato: For Valentine's Romance, New Orleans Bistro Delivers
  • We correct mechanics like hand position, fingering creativity or mezzo pianos that are too loud.
  • C.R.W. Nevinson is synonymous with a spiky, geometric English Futurism, but the three mezzotints in the British Museum of cityscapes have a gorgeous inky blackness out of which roofs in his typical style are all but subsumed.
  • American Joyce DiDonato is at the top of her game in this sizzling collection of arias representing the gender-bending opera roles - called trouser roles in the biz - that mezzo-sopranos are frequently called on to play. Thestar.com - Home Page
  • After the mezzotint has been in his office for some hours, Williams examines it again, thinking that perhaps he had been too hasty in his earlier dismissal of it.
  • In the Neapolitan and Sicilian provinces, parishes were scattered, bishoprics penniless, and priests insubordinate: more than half the ecclesiastics convicted of felonies in 1874 served the cross in the Mezzogiorno.
  • It is worth remembering that intermezzos were never really supposed to contain the musical highlights of an evening.
  • Framed mezzotints of cherubs and angels crowded the green walls. The Vesuvius Club
  • For this recording, taped in 1978, Raymond Leppard gave the castrato role to mezzo-soprano Dame Janet Baker, and the alto role to countertenor James Bowman.
  • Note 10: Oltre la libreria vi è una cameretta destinata allo studio nell'appartamento principale, d'intorno alla quale sono sedili di legno con gli appoggi ed una tavola nel mezzo: lavorato il tutto diligentissimamente d'opera d'intarsi e d'intagli. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
  • And of course the whole opera is a great showcase for a majestic mezzo and stunning soprano. Times, Sunday Times
  • Above all, it had the dominant presence of Veronica Dunne in the dark mezzo role of the sinister Countess.
  • Verkolje also made a mezzotint from the painting, in which the subject is reversed left to right.
  • In silver, there is the scudo of six livres, the mezzo scudo of three; and the quarto, or pezza di trenta soldi: but all these are very scarce. Travels through France and Italy
  • By the bye, the publication of a splendid mezzotinto engraving of his likeness by Reynolds, was a great matter of glorification to Goldsmith, especially as it appeared in such illustrious company. The Life of Oliver Goldsmith
  • Below mezzo-forte, 1 horn is sufficient to compete successfully with 1 trumpet or 1 trombone.
  • Thomas Jones Barker's The Secret of England's Greatness was exhibited in 1863 at the height of public support for the abolition of American slavery during the Civil War and proved popular as a mezzotint.
  • We know that by the height of G.F. Handel's career, mezzo-sopranos and contraltos were finally recognized on the public stage, and music from that time on seems to fill the gap in tessitura (the general range within which the notes of a piece lie). Archive 2007-01-01
  • The two coolest things: (1) Discussion of the mezzotints of the Ramsay portraits of Hume and Rousseau (the Ramsay paintings can be seen online at the National Gallery of Scotland). Archive 2005-07-01
  • Jennie Tourel and Christa Ludwig are the respective mezzo soloists.
  • I'm going to say "No! Mezzo-forte! and they will be giving me just the blankest looks. Making a High School Musical When It Isn't
  • These prints were mezzotinted by Richard Earlom, the leading craftsman of the day whose mezzotints are amongst the finest ever produced.
  • Short revived aquatint and mezzotint as both creative and reproductive media, and his etchings were praised by Whistler, who often visited Short's studio for advice on technical matters.
  • Although singing most of the time only mezzo forte, his pronunciation is good, his coloraturas flow weightlessly and his piano is clear and sure.
  • Joining her was mezzo-soprano Jane Henschel, with a delightfully oleaginous rendering of Clytemnestra that brought the bloodletting adulteress to new heights of malevolence. 'Elektra' Electrifies in Madrid
  • The album "Black Tears" was a kind of intermezzo featuring familiar songs next to a few previously unreleased songs. Side-Line news feed
  • Manistina, while not a great actress, sang the challenging role admirably with her well-sounding, stable mezzo and garnered much applause.
  • In tonight's Parks episode (NBC, 8:30/7:30c), Leslie's promotional tour for said book lands her on public radio — a satirical spin courtesy of guest Dan Castellaneta (moonlighting from his suddenly contentious Simpsons gig) — and then on Pawnee Today, where the town's chirpiest cheerleader experiences a bit of an identity crisis, courtesy of "Gotcha!" host Joan Calamezzo (the hilarious Mo Gaffney). Matt's Guide to Thursday TV: Parks By the Book, Grey's Guys Step Up, and More!
  • The real vocal star is Katharine Goeldner as the knight Ruggiero, giving as spectacular a demonstration of mezzo-soprano coloratura virtuosity as you are likely to hear anywhere today.
  • His imagery conveys intense emotion, and the beauty of his mezzotints is everlasting.
  • Young, John (1755 – 1825): mezzotint engraver and etcher. Index of People
  • Vocal score for 2 soprano voice solos, 2 mezzo soprano voice solos, 3 tenor voice solos, 2 baritone voice solos, SATB chorus and piano accompaniment. Series: G. Schirmer Opera Score Editions.
  • If Handel wanted a young lover then he wrote for castrato or female mezzo-soprano.
  • The centre offered a wide range of media - intaglio processes such as etching, aquatint, dry point and mezzotint, as well as woodcuts, screen prints and other forms of colour printing.
  • And with a soprano taking the role, rather than a mezzo-soprano, for once the two divas were equals in their fireworks.
  • The admirable Bernarda Fink is the soloist in the Nietzsche setting, though some may prefer more of a contralto sound than Fink's lightish mezzo; and for all the transparent beauty of the Concertgebouw's strings, the finale's hymn is never transcendent as it can be. Mahler: Symphony No 3 – review
  • Paint adn Mezzo no can paly aotsied adn luk fur coonses. Look at us, just look - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • It conjures the Orpheus legend from myriad oblique angles — the long, elusive Ashbery poem the mezzo-soprano sings (Kristen Hoff, showing a clear-stream tone and superb diction) gives snapshots of the story while questioning both its very essence and whether living on in legend is really living at all. Archive 2008-07-01
  • Caskets of Loveliness, Beauty, as they way be called; glaring caricatures of flowers, singly, in groups, in flower-pots, or with hideous deformed little Cupids sporting among them; of what are called “mezzotinto,” pencil-drawings, The Paris Sketch Book
  • Mr. Corigliano, writing for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, relies on a more immediately universal approach, using the words of Czeslaw Milosz, Homer, Li Po and Yip Harburg to honor the dead. A Mixed Record of Success in Addressing the Attacks
  • During the nineteenth century steel was used instead of copper for mezzotinting and this allowed a larger number of impressions.
  • For images that would otherwise be printed with a coarse screen ruling, mezzotinting can yield greater detail and a sharper image, while adding beauty and reducing file size.
  • After about 1750 the intermezzo evolved further into opera buffa.
  • Nothing about Cathy could hide unnoticed, appear in muted pastels, or be restricted to the palette between pianissimo and mezzo piano.
  • Close took up many different techniques, among them etching, aquatint, lithography, mezzotint, linoleum cuts, and woodcuts, and found help from skilled printers.
  • It's funny, having known the chorus and the intermezzo well for years, I realised I only properly listened to the whole opera in order to write this blog entry.
  • Ambiguous consolation, but never easy sentiment, is offered in the delicately contrasting intermezzo and an uneasy, etiolated finale. Times, Sunday Times
  • There are many special people that deserve to be recognised for their efforts and achievements in the community," said Greg whose voice - known as a countertenor - is similar in range to that of a female mezzo-soprano such as the award-winning singer Katherine Jenkins. WalesOnline - Home
  • The intaglio printmaking techniques are engraving, drypoint, etching, aquatint, stipple, mezzotint and are discussed in part two of this article.
  • Schmid first learned the art of mezzotinting in the Czech Republic, she notes in her biography, and developed this skill in Slovakia, where she was a Fulbright fellow.
  • The 63-year-old National Realty Club kicked off the new decade by moving its bi-weekly events to an eccentric turn-of-the-century bachelor mansion filled with British mezzotints on the corner of 55th Street and Madison Avenue. At National Realty Club Lunch, Cautious Pessimism About 2010
  • A singer transforming her voice from soprano to mezzo-soprano is no longer necessarily the prima donna. Times, Sunday Times
  • Madrigals for multiple voices are reconfigured for performance by a single mezzo-soprano and instruments - and not authentic ones, either!
  • I think it's the sort of piece where if the diction is really energetically articulated, it carries a lot of the musical line with it, and the mezzo's diction was particularly clear. Magna Carter (3): The stuff that dreams are made of
  • The group of unaccompanied voices comprises bass, baritone, tenor, mezzo-soprano and soprano.
  • The group of unaccompanied voices comprises bass, baritone, tenor, mezzo-soprano and soprano.
  • The group of unaccompanied voices comprises bass, baritone, tenor, mezzo-soprano and soprano.
  • The voice had a curious quality, husky and high-pitched as if uncertain whether it was a light tenor or a throaty mezzo-soprano.
  • These three mezzotints have a gorgeous inky blackness out of which roofs in his typical style are all but subsumed.
  • Some bring with them a hamper of provisions and wine, and, spreading them on the grass, lunch and dine when and where they will; but those who would dine with the artists must have the order of the _mezzo baiocco_ hanging to their buttonhole, which is distributed previously in Rome to all the artists who purchase tickets. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860
  • They were mezzotinted to imitate the bistre drawings.
  • Her thrilling debut should take the American mezzo far. Times, Sunday Times
  • True, the young Austrian mezzo chose some interesting repertoire. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is music theatre in all but name, and the Lamento della Ninfa, gorgeously sung by mezzo Bernarda Fink while a trio of male voices supply the chorus, could have been lifted from the pages of one of the late operas, too.
  • Orford, Evelyn, and Vertue attribute to him the invention of mezzotinto engraving; but this has been disputed, and, we believe, disproved. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 352, January 17, 1829
  • The mezzo-soprano also proved that she is still the only Bulgarian singer to have mastered unaccented pronunciation of German and a clear diction, so essential to the art of singing.
  • Backed by a 12-person choir, the quartet's hitherto hidden voices hold their own, controlling the mezzo range nicely.
  • Abkhazian soprano Hibla Gerzmava is in full and generous voice as the conniving Vitellia, and Canadian mezzo-soprano Allyson McHardy is an earnest Annio well-paired with Franco-Algerian soprano Amel Brahim-Djellous, who is just as enchanting and beautifully-sung a Servilia here as she was at the Aix Festival in July. Dark and Light Brilliance
  • The role of the Grand Duchess is not one that we might associate with Felicity Lott; it was in fact written for a mezzo-soprano.
  • Anne Sofie von Otter's mezzo-soprano is perhaps a touch ethereal for Dido, but she didn't try and compete with the orchestra, instead confidently drawing the drama to her, with a stage presence and an unfailingly intelligent musicality that anchored the human dimension of Part II. Troy to Remember
  • Mr. Corigliano, writing for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, relies on a more immediately universal approach, using the words of Czeslaw Milosz, Homer, Li Po and Yip Harburg to honor the dead. A Mixed Record of Success in Addressing the Attacks
  • His decision to work in mezzotint was partly perverse, as it was an antiquated medium so labor-intensive that it was only rarely practiced.
  • Mezzo Janet Campbell doesn't have a large voice, but she is one fine singer and musician.
  • Gross, a master of etching in charge of graphics at the Slade School of Art, later helped Daphne Reynolds to develop mezzotints, the deep, velvety blacks created with home-made ink.
  • To the degree that the image is ‘extracted’ from its background by means of burnishing, the process is akin to mezzotinting.
  • It wasn't just that she was trained as a soprano when her voice was a mezzo - which led to a very public hiatus in her career. Times, Sunday Times
  • ‘The Only Son,’ from 1947, is actually a little scena for mezzo, tenor, and baritone, with piano.
  • The seven types of aria are: Aria Cantabile; Aria di portamento; Aria di mezzo carattere; Aria parlante; Aria di bravura; Aria di agilita; Notes on ''An assiduous frequenter of the Italian opera': Shelley's Prometheus Unbound and the opera buffa'
  • This process involves etching, engraving, dry point, aquatint, mezzotint, linocut and wood block.
  • Elina Garanca's voice is somewhat lighter than the other mezzo-sopranos which results in a good contrast.
  • The intaglio printmaking techniques are engraving, drypoint, etching, aquatint, stipple, mezzotint and are discussed in part two of this article.
  • Overall, her agile mezzo is in fine fettle, and her physical presence and vocal colours well tailored to text and musical line. Times, Sunday Times
  • The mezzo was the New Zealander Wendy Dawn Thompson, with whom I once briefly corresponded in before-she-was-famous days. Archive 2008-12-01
  • The centre offered a wide range of media - intaglio processes such as etching, aquatint, dry point and mezzotint, as well as woodcuts, screen prints and other forms of colour printing.
  • The admirable Bernarda Fink is the soloist in the Nietzsche setting, though some may prefer more of a contralto sound than Fink's lightish mezzo; and for all the transparent beauty of the Concertgebouw's strings, the finale's hymn is never transcendent as it can be. Mahler: Symphony No 3 – review
  • Mezzo-soprano Kristen Choi sang Cherubino's aria, "Non so piú cosa son," from the first act of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro. George Heymont: To Preserve and Protect
  • And here, as the name formulated itself, that little sprite of Brahms, that intermezzo, once more leapt to my side out of the parched fields. Alone
  • There are no fewer than five open Bibles in the picture, and the walls are adorned with a memorial commemorating a dead son and an ominous mezzotint, Samson Carrying Off the Gates of Gaza by James Lucas.
  • There are seven women and five men, comprising five sopranos, three mezzo sopranos, two tenors and three baritones.
  • In 1982, she helped curate "The Jews in the Age of Rembrandt," a critically well-received show of engravings, etchings and mezzotints, at New York's Jewish Museum. Ruth Levine; artist
  • Canadian mezzo Allyson McHardy sings and acts Butterfly's servant, Suzuki, with care and sensitivity.
  • To make this even more tedious, on page 397 (twenty-one pages after Rothko first walked into the ship's bar) there is a kind of intermezzo between these two redundant descriptions of that first night out, in which we are told: "In May of 1959 Mark and Mell Rothko were preparing to leave New York for their second trip to Europe. Writing on Rothko
  • Promenade," and "Mazurka" are to be mentioned, and a number of pieces for violin and piano, among them a finely built intermezzo, a berceuse, a romanza that should be highly effective, and a witty scherzino. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
  • Shortly after completing the commission, Marchant engaged John Sartain to produce a mezzotint of the portrait.
  • Many of the pictures in this exhibition show his desire for simplicity, especially in the watercolours and mezzotints, which results in some of the first great Impressionist images.
  • Dick, if thou keep not off my heels in the passamezzo -- Days of the Discoverers
  • Catherine Wyn-Rogers, one of Britain's most acclaimed mezzo-sopranos and much loved by Proms audiences, sings Sir Edward Elgar's ravishing Sea Pictures.
  • Patrice Jegou is a mezzo-soprano, soon to be teaching voice at the University of Lethbridge.
  • Usually the three classes of voices receive different treatment, one form of instruction being used for sopranos and tenors, another for mezzo-sopranos and baritones, and a third for altos and bassos. The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern
  • This second part is about the intaglio printmaking techniques - engraving, drypoint, etching, aquatint, stipple, mezzotint.
  • It's more allegretto than andante, like a Brahms symphonic intermezzo.
  • The downside of mezzotinting is that the plate does not last very long, for the depth of the pits was very shallow and a few dozen impressions could wear a plate out.
  • A mezzotint plate produced fewer impressions than a line engraving, but the engravers bewailed its invention, as being an easier and more facile process.
  • Another mezzo-soprano and a tall, male counter-tenor will fill slots in two touring productions.
  • For the mezzotint print, the surface is completely marked with a dense network of lines.
  • Promenade," and "Mazurka" are to be mentioned, and a number of pieces for violin and piano, among them a finely built intermezzo, a berceuse, a romanza that should be highly effective, and a witty scherzino. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
  • The high notes are no longer there, everything below mezzo-forte is weak, and the stability of the voice betrayed by occasional wobbles.
  • This process involves etching, engraving, dry point, aquatint, mezzotint, linocut and wood block.
  • Here's part one of that, and here's an intriguing intermezzo. TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
  • Alfred Joseph Annedouche, a frequent engraver of large plates for Goupil, produced the mezzotint in 1873, two years after Bouguereau made the painting.
  • My distinguished colleagues include the legendary tenor Plácido Domingo, as well as counter-tenor David Daniels, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni, soprano Lisette Oropesa, and counter-tenor Anthony Roth Costanzo. Danielle de Niese: Inspired to Inspire

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