“Mezzo-Soprano Jessica Best gives the show’s best performance as the stepmother, who spends most of the play terrorizing Swanwhite and her servants. In her role, those unexpected melodic leaps made sense, and her paranoia and grief over a long-ago death dominate the stage.” ...
It was very poorly received despite the presence of such notable singers as soprano Rosina Storchio, tenor Giovanni Zenatello and baritone Giuseppe De Luca in the lead roles. This was due in large part to the late completion and inadequate time for rehearsals. Puccini revised the opera, ...
she trills in that mezzo-soprano voice of hers. then she sparks a call-and-response, commanding us to “drop it like a thottie.”“put your lighters in the sky, get this motherfucker litty/she gon’ shake that ass and her pretty tig old bitties,” she sings just as the showboys’...
It’s easy enough to understand—lang’s knotty songwriting, yearning mezzo-soprano, and that slyly sexy chorus are instantly undeniable, which led to new audiences and celebrity once it came out alongside an eerily beautiful video riffing on Waiting for Godot. But the song struck a separate ...
Some described Jessye Norman as a ‘Falcon soprano’ – closer to a mezzo soprano in tone, but a dramatic soprano in range. She was known for her operatic roles in Bizet’s Carmen and Verdi’s Aida, and her interpretations of Strauss songs. One of the too-few Black opera singers to ac...
Like a call to prayer, the opening phrase of Ofra Haza’s 1984 song “Im Nin’alu” is instantly transportive, sweeping the listener up in her expressive, fluttery mezzo-soprano. And when U.K. production duo Coldcut sampled that passage on their landmark 1987 remix of Eric B. & Rakim...
The song starts with a pared back reggae intro (albeit one sung in a mezzo soprano belt) and segues into a multi-layered, heavily produced electropop opus around the melancholic theme of self-destruction through partying and inebriation. ...
In the video clip above, Myron Yusypovych conducts at the Lviv Philharmonia in Western Ukraine. Italian Mezzo-soprano Monica Minarelli performs Azucena in one of the best Halloween songs in the opera repertoire.Stride la vampa! Take her to the stake! La folla indomita The unrestrained mob ...
A great song can make us laugh, cry, or feel like we can conquer the world, and at the center of many of those unforgettable songs is often a brilliant female vocalist.
Maren Morris’ smash “The Bones” — which spent 19 weeks at No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and peaked at No. 12 on the Hot 100 — combines her beautiful countrified mezzo-soprano and staccato guitar riffs with almost too-prescient lyrics of withstanding a storm as long as your ...