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From:  "Ciro" <cirodaraujo@u...>
Date:  Fri Sep 29, 2000  7:04 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist-temporary] Digest Number 286


>vtec> Cecilia Bartoli -- lyric mezzo, or
>vtec> artificially-darkened soprano?
>
>In my opera literature class, my professor was talking on Wednesday
>about the peculiar voice type that Rossini wrote for: the lyric
>coloratura mezzo-soprano.

The coloratura mezzo is Marilyn Horne. Cecilia Bartoli can get away
with Rosina and Cenerentola but she doesn't do nearly as well with
the heavier writing of the serious Rossini heroines and
trouser roles in the stage.She simply doesn't produce enough sound
on the lower register.
On recordings she is supreme however.


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