Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The mezzo-soprano voice (unlike the soprano voice) is strong in the middle register and weaker in the head register, resulting in a deeper tone than the soprano voice. [2] The term mezzo-soprano was developed in relation to classical and operatic voices, where the classification is based not merely on the singer's vocal range but also on the ...
A Charm of Lullabies, Op.41 is a song cycle for mezzo-soprano with piano accompaniment by Benjamin Britten.It consists of five songs composed on poems by William Blake, Robert Burns, Robert Greene, Thomas Randolph and John Phillip.
From the Diary of Virginia Woolf is an eight-part song cycle written by Dominick Argento in 1974 for the English mezzo-soprano Janet Baker. [1] The work won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1975. The text of the songs comes from A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf , which was published in 1954. [ 2 ] (
All of the songs were composed between 1954 and 1958. [1] The cycle is best suited for mezzo-soprano, although, the original program note from the cycle's 1959 premiere acknowledges that all of the songs may be sung by a baritone, except for "Hands, Eyes, and Heart", "which is a woman's song."
In 1997 the two were awarded the ABC International Music Award. [ 2 ] Shirai has made occasional excursions into opera, including an admired Despina at Frankfurt in 1987, [ 2 ] and has appeared in concert versions of Lucio Silla , Wagner's Das Liebesverbot , and Dukas's Ariane et Barbe-bleue .
A mezzo-soprano (Italian: [ˌmɛddzosoˈpraːno], lit. ' half soprano '), or mezzo (English: / ˈ m ɛ t s oʊ / MET-soh), is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types. The mezzo-soprano's vocal range usually extends from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above (i.e.
Eleven Songs for Susan (2007), for mezzo-soprano & chamber orchestra; Three Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay (2007), for voice & piano; Songs Old and New (2008), for soprano & orchestra; Four Sonnets of Shakespeare (2008), for tenor & piano; Sonnet 144 (Two Loves I Have) (2010), for soprano, mezzo-soprano, & piano
One Sweet Morning is a four-movement song cycle for mezzo-soprano solo and orchestra by the American composer John Corigliano.The work was jointly commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.