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Sissel's musical style runs the gamut from pop recordings and traditional folk songs, to classical vocals and operatic arias. She possesses a "crystalline" voice [2] and wide vocal range, sweeping down from mezzo-soprano notes, in arias such as Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix from Saint-Saëns's opera Samson et Dalila, to the F natural above ...
Recitative and aria for soprano and orchestra: Metastasio L'Olimpiade III,6: 24 February 1778 316: 300b "Popoli di Tessaglia! ... Io non chiedo, eterni Dei" (Score/Crit. report) Recitative and aria for soprano and orchestra: Ranieri de' Calzabigi Alceste I,2: 8 January 1779 365a "Zittre, töricht Herz" Aria for soprano and orchestra (lost)
To promote Sacred Arias, Bocelli recorded his second PBS concert at the Roman church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, in Rome, in 1999, singing most of the songs from the album. The special was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Classical Music-Dance Program during the 52nd Primetime Emmy Awards .
Dame Kiri Jeanette Claire Te Kanawa [1] (/ ˈ k ɪr i t ə ˈ k ɑː n ə w ə /; [2] born Claire Mary Teresa Rawstron, 6 March 1944) is a New Zealand opera singer.She had a full lyric soprano voice, which has been described as "mellow yet vibrant, warm, ample and unforced". [3]
Eileen Farrell. Eileen Farrell (February 13, 1920 – March 23, 2002) was an American soprano who had a nearly 60-year-long career performing both classical and popular music in concerts, theatres, on radio and television, and on disc.
Amira Willighagen was born in Nijmegen to a Dutch father and a South African mother whose mother tongue is Afrikaans. [3] She grew up surrounded by classical music. At the age of seven, during a holiday in the United Kingdom, she heard the aria "Nessun dorma", performed by Luciano Pavarotti. [4]
William S. Burroughs reviewed the album in Esquire, praising it as "a permanent record of the most exciting concert I heard this year". [6] Records in Review judged it "thoroughly delightful", [7] and Time called it "distinguished". [8] It was also reviewed in High Fidelity, [9] Musikrevy, [10] The New Records, [11] Opera [12] and Tribuna ...
Its lyrics are the first words heard in act 1 of the opera, following the communal "wa-do-wa". It is sung by Clara as a lullaby . The song theme is reprised soon after as counterpoint to the craps game scene, in act 2 in a reprise by Clara, and in act 3 by Bess, singing to Clara's now-orphaned baby after both parents died in the storm.