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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 ...
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.
Songs of Light and Love (1998) soprano and chamber ensemble; text by May Sarton. Love After 1950 (2000) five movements mezzo-soprano and piano; text by Rita Dove, Julie Kane, Kathryn Daniels, Liz Lochhead, and Muriel Rukeyser. My Antonia (2000) high voice and piano; text by Willa Cather. Try Me, Good King: Last Words of the Wives of Henry VIII ...
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. She has also sung soprano and alto repertory. Bartoli is considered a singer with an unusual timbre ...
She took part in a 2017 recital with songs for voice, viola and piano in the Sendesaal of the Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt, singing the two songs by Johannes Brahms and rarely performed works by Adolf Busch and Siegmund von Hausegger. [8] Murrihy was awarded the Anny Schlemm Prize for young female singers in 2011. [3] [9]
[8] The Opera Babes' 2006 "Renaissance" concert toured songs from both of their albums performed with multi-media special effects and visuals, as well as dancers costumed by designer Elizabeth Emanuel. [9] In December 2006, they were featured on the UK's Songs of Praise programme recorded at Lichfield Cathedral. In the spring of 2007, they ...
(Love is a rebellious bird) Love! (That none can tame,) Love! (And it is well in vain that one calls it,) Love! (If it suits it to refuse.) Love! Love is a gypsy child, It has never, never known a law, If you don't love me, I love you, If I love you, be on your guard! (Be on your guard!) If you don't love me, If you don't love me, then I love you!
Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour" ("Beautiful Night, Oh Night of Love" in French, often referred to as the "Barcarolle") is a piece from The Tales of Hoffmann (1881), Jacques Offenbach's final opera. A duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano , it is considered the most famous barcarolle ever written [ 1 ] and described in the Grove Book of Operas as "one ...