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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.
Paus' Hate Songs is based on the poem "Women: A Hate Song" published by Parker in Vanity Fair in 1916 [5] and subsequent poems that have been described as "a photo-book of New York with the female caricatures that Parker abhorred or despised, notably idle bourgeois ladies, who were the object of patriarchal worship as angelic domestic creatures ...
Sea Pictures, Op. 37 is a song cycle by Sir Edward Elgar consisting of five songs written by various poets. It was set for contralto and orchestra, though a distinct version for piano was often performed by Elgar. Many mezzo-sopranos have sung the piece. The songs are: [1] "Sea Slumber Song" by Roden Noel (approximately 4 minutes)
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.
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] (The five-volume ...
English mezzo-soprano United Kingdom: 1954-12-22 Fleetwood: Q6171442: Karla Burns: American singer and actress United States of America: 1954-12-24 2021-06-04 Wichita: Wichita: Q6372427: Anne-Marie Owens: English mezzo-soprano 1955 South Shields: Q31922791: Anne Sofie von Otter: Swedish mezzo-soprano (born 1955) Sweden: 1955-05-09 Stockholm ...
The album made her the fastest-selling mezzo-soprano to date [1] she became the first British classical crossover artist to have two number one albums in the same year. [2] Her second album, Second Nature , reached number 16 in the UK later on in 2004.