In a message dated 3/29/2001 4:26:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, dalila@R... writes: dalila@R... writes:
> I frankly think he had a mezzo-phobia, that he shared > with Mozart and Leoncavallo. >
I spoke with a young composer about 6 months ago about the general dearth of mezzo rep, and he told me that composers find writing for sopranos much easier, because the high voice can soar over the orchestration more easily, so they don't have to worry about singer audibility and can write and orchestrate away, as they please. TinaO
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