What's most remarkable, though, is how they blend with the altos and sopranos and mezzos as a cohesive unit that together frames and forms sweet melodies. ❋ Danny Groner (2011)
The next wave of great American lyric mezzos was represented by Susan Graham and Joyce DiDonato. ❋ David Littlejohn (2012)
"You know," this matron told Bill, "Mr. Bing can bring us the mezzos and the coloraturas and the altos, but only God can bring us a tenor." ❋ Unknown (2010)
Furthermore, everyone is clearly very patient with the disheveled and scratchy-voiced Zucker, whose erratic interviewing pinballs between elementary questions on breathing techniques to inane inquiries on whether mezzos have stronger sexual stamina than sopranos. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Wolfgang Koch's powerfully sung Telramund, Michaela Schuster's Ortrud (wonderfully detailed in her conniving allure, and relatively free of the harshness so many mezzos bring to this role), Christof Fischesser's anxious, supple-toned Heinrich, and a notably forthright Herald from Russian baritone Evgeny Nikitin complete this unusually fine cast. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But apart from sentimental considerations, she was a great singer with a very distinctive mezzo-soprano voice — lighter and brighter than a contralto, but darker and more mature-sounding than most of the mezzos of today. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Celeste's Scramblings: Jean-Jacques Rousseau: champion of among other things, mezzos! skip to main | skip to sidebar ❋ Celeste Winant (2008)
(Reading) The sisters 'voices were almost identical, laughing mezzos, tuned in childhood to the same pitch and timbre. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: champion of among other things, mezzos! ❋ Celeste Winant (2008)
I am sure that there are better tenors, better baritones, better basses, and more suitable mezzos than SFO came up with. ❋ Lisa Hirsch (2009)
* I heard her live on a gala some years ago, along with a range of other sopranos and mezzos. ❋ Lisa Hirsch (2009)
* Giulio Cesare is an awesome opera for altos: 1 lyric soprano, 1 mezzo soprano, 1 contralto, 3 countertenors (all of which can be sung by mezzos with powerful lower ranges), and 2 basses. ❋ Celeste Winant (2007)
If you leave out half the choir -- sopranos, mezzos and altos -- you get a very odd bass and tenor tune that becomes the norm. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He certainly may not be as flashy as some countertenors, mezzos, and sopranos that have mined Handel's seemingly endless vaults for material, but he nonetheless delivers. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Two great mezzos released gorgeous albums: Vivica Genaux doing Vivaldi arias and Joyce DiDonato with Rossini. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I auditioned for a local professional group back in June, but not only are deliberations pending, I would have to upstage quite a few well-established mezzos to get in, and so I am not holding my breath. ❋ Celeste Winant (2007)
