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Bartoli after a concert performance of La Cenerentola at the Salle Pleyel, 2008. Cecilia Bartoli OMRI (Italian: [tʃeˈtʃiːlja ˈbartoli]; born 4 June 1966) is an Italian mezzo-soprano widely known in the music of Bellini, Handel, Mozart, Rossini and Vivaldi and for lesser-known music of the Baroque and Classical periods.
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 ...
Deborah Humble (born August 4, 1969) is a Welsh born Australian dramatic mezzo-soprano noted for her operatic roles and performances on the world’s concert stages. [1] A principal artist with Opera Australia and the Staatsoper Hamburg, Humble was a recipient of the Dame Joan Sutherland Award in 2004 and a finalist in the International Wagner Competition in 2008.
Schwarzkopf made her American concert debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on 28 and 29 October 1954, in Strauss's Four Last Songs and the closing scene from Capriccio with Fritz Reiner conducting; her Carnegie Hall debut was a lied recital on 25 November 1956; [11] her American opera debut was with the San Francisco Opera on 20 September ...
mezzo-soprano: 11 November 1950: 22 October 1983: Batyah Godfrey Ben-David: 595: mezzo-soprano: 17 February 1969: 16 April 1988: Morley Meredith: 593: baritone: 3 January 1962: 18 April 1992: Rosina Galli: 593: dancer: 19 November 1914: 18 February 1935: James Wolfe: 592: bass: 7 November 1923: 23 December 1939: Jane Shaulis: 567: mezzo-soprano ...
Dame Janet Abbott Baker (born 21 August 1933) is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer. [1]Baker is particularly closely associated with baroque and early Italian opera and the works of Benjamin Britten.
Marilyn Berneice Horne (born January 16, 1934) [2] is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer.She specialized in roles requiring beauty of tone, excellent breath support, and the ability to execute difficult coloratura passages.
Małgorzata Walewska has a very rich concert repertoire. She often gives recitals with the accompaniment of piano or harp. Her program includes songs of Polish and international composers such as G. Fauré, F. Schubert, S. Moniuszko, K. Szymanowski, F. Chopin, or P. Tchaikovsky, as well as song cycles such as Les nuits d'été by H. Berlioz or Wesendonck Lieder by R. Wagner.