These solo parts have lost none of their difficulty for singers, and from the sopranos of the chorus Beethoven well-nigh demands the superhuman.
Michael Umlauf conducted and the solo singers were Henriette Sontag (one of the most famous sopranos of her day), Karolina Unger, Anton Haitzinger, and J.
The Uplifted Gates" is a chorus for mixed voices with solos for sopranos and altos; it is elaborate, warm, and brilliant.
It opens with a dramatic chorus sung by the mob before the cross, and it ends daringly with a unisonal descent of the voices that carries even the sopranos down to A natural.
Archbishop Sigis-mund allowed the male sopranos to die out, and did not replace them with others; on the other hand he sent the daughter of the cathedral organist, Maria Magd.
The sopranos were the foremost singers of their time.
Spectacle John warned the sopranos again and again to go slowly, so as to admit of their overworked followers getting in all their parts about the middle, left and right.
Each of the sopranoshad an attendant swain in the basses.
From a passage for the hidden voices of the sopranos we expect the approach of Roberto.
From the church comes the sound of a fragment of a motet, begun by the sopranos and swelling out afterwards in a six-part chorus.
Usually the three classes of voices receive different treatment, one form of instruction being used forsopranos and tenors, another for mezzo-sopranos and baritones, and a third for altos and bassos.
I am a little critical, so far as music is concerned, and you have two sopranos outside who deafen me with their shrieks.
Soon it became more distinct, and he recognized the words, 'In exitu Israel de Egypto', sung at the top of the lungs by a voice so shrill that it would have irritated the larynx of any of the sopranos at the Opera.
The greatest dramatic sopranos that ever sing Brunhilde and Kundry enjoy no such popularity.
The tenor part was written for the great singer, Rubini, whose name has no peer among artists since male sopranos were abolished by the outraged moral sense of society.
Divide into two groups, three sopranos and two altos in each group.
This register practically belongs only to sopranos and tenors.
In practice, however, the small larynx and the limited cup space found in florid sopranos make it difficult if not impossible for them to adjust their vocal tracts to the chest register.
At any time any opera house would have been proud of two such tenors as Caruso and Bonci, or of two such sopranos as Melba and Tetrazzini, while there is no period in which a Sembrich would not have been a rara avis.
It hardly need be pointed out that the lower notes of florid sopranos are weak.
Fortunately the girls had remembered their instructions; the second sopranos kept well up to pitch, the time did not drag, and the crescendo passage was rendered with due regard to tone.
I noticed yesterday that the second sopranos were out of tune; and you certainly let them shout too loud.
In the first place, the second sopranos are out of tune continually.
This tells how she became one of the surest and most powerful dramatic sopranos that ever lived.
You ought to be one of the few great lyricsopranos within five years.
And Mathias, not to be excelled, raised his shrill notes higher still, sweeping the sopranos along with him.
The tittering raised to a snicker and Philomel Whiffet, too flabbergasted to call out Drusilla's name and send her to her own seat with the sopranos where she belonged, turned quickly his back to the school and fumbled in his pocket.
In his irritation he complained that the sopranos persisted in singing this aria which was written for a contralto and did not sing what had been written for the sopranos at all.
We do not, for example, expect to hear male sopranos at the opera.
The sopranos are still dressed in white, and the contraltos in black, indicative of their voices' color.
It was arranged as a solo for sopranos and altos, and then taken in unison by the full chorus, and I have no musical memory sweeter than the cadences of that chorus, which were given with such beauty and freshness by these children.
How sweetly the sopranos take the opening of the theme, and then come the tenors alone--"Shouldst thou walking in grief.
The tenors and bassos take the first verse, and the sopranos and altos the second verse in unison, which gives you an excellent opportunity of hearing the various parts of the great chorus by themselves.
Among the sopranos are the matchless Parepa, Mrs. H.
The part of Lucifer is assigned to the barytone voice, the spirits of the air to the sopranos and altos, and the bells to the tenors and basses, the whole closing with the Gregorian Chant.
The fifth ("He in Tears that soweth") is a soprano solo with chorus of first and second sopranos and altos.
In the choral response ("The Apostles and the Martyrs wrapped in Mantles") the sopranos and altos are in unison, making with the first and second tenors a splendid effect.
It is only necessary to note the contrast between the male sopranos of the opera seria, or the comic lovers of the opera buffa, and this Belmont, who expresses manly love in all its force and intensity.
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