Dame Maggie Teyte, DBE ( 17 April 188826 May 1976 ) was an English operatic soprano and interpreter of French art song.

*" Begin the Beguine "-words and music by Cole Porter, sung first in an operatic style by Lois Hodnott ( who was also used to dub the vocals for screwball soprano Carmen D ' Antonio in the comedy audition sequence Il Bacio in the middle of the movie ) and later in a jazz style by The Music Maids, danced by Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell, including a lengthy passage in which they tap dance with no musical accompaniment.

She started 1985 by participating on USA for Africa's famine-relief fund-raising single " We Are the World ", singing the climactic soprano part of the bridge.

While pushing her eldest son Leonard ( Chico Marx ) in piano lessons, she found that Julius had a pleasant soprano voice and the ability to remain on key.

The soprano Teresa Stolz ( who later had a strong professional – and, perhaps, romantic – relationship with Verdi ) was at that time engaged to be married to Mariani, but she left him not long after.

In Edipo Re ( a short one act work ) the composer uses exactly the same melody for the final scene " Miei poveri fior, per voi non più sole ..." ( with the blinded Edipo ) as he had for the act 4 soprano aria from Der Roland von Berlin.

Although little direct confirmation of the theory exists, a Stuttgart inventory from 1589 mentions two cornetts pitched ‘ two tones lower than the treble cornett ’ ( see Spielmann ), and the civic ensemble of Bologna had positions for both cornetto di soprano and cornetto di contralto ( see Gambassi ).

Before he had the soprano vibraphone, he used song bells as an extended range of the standard vibraphone ; the song bells were similar in timbre, but soprano vibraphone was naturally the more ideal extension of the standard vibraphone.

Historically, women were not allowed to sing in the Church so the soprano roles were given to young boys and later to castrati — men whose larynxes had been fixed in a pre-adolescent state through the process of castration.

The label's first releases were traditional " hot " jazz and boogie woogie, and the label's first hit was a performance of " Summertime " by soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet, which Bechet had been unable to record for the established companies.

In the 1930s the band at the University of Illinois under Austin Harding had a full sarrusophone section from soprano to E ♭ contrabass that included at least the tenor rothphone.

Here, as in A Child of Our Time, Tippett turns to the blues for spiritual and emotional solace, and in his writing for solo soprano achieved perhaps his most successful and moving tribute to Bessie Smith, an artist he had long admired.

The women soloists were Christina Maria Avoglio, who had sung the main soprano roles in the two subscription series, and Susannah Cibber, an established stage actress and contralto who had sung in the second series.

In 1726, he also visited Parma and Milan, where Johann Joachim Quantz heard him and commented: " Farinelli had a penetrating, full, rich, bright and well-modulated soprano voice, with a range at that time from the A below middle C to the D two octaves above middle C. ... His intonation was pure, his trill beautiful, his breath control extraordinary and his throat very agile, so that he performed the widest intervals quickly and with the greatest ease and certainty.

By the end of the 1930s Beecham had issued versions for Columbia of most of the main orchestral and choral works, together with several songs in which he accompanied the soprano Dora Labbette on the piano.

As a youth, he had a high soprano voice ( he could sing the music of the " Queen of the Night " in The Magic Flute as a boy ), and his voice developed into a fine tenor.

The previous year he had met soprano Elizabeth Wright after hearing her perform at Ranelagh Gardens.

In addition to her acting skills, O ' Hara had a soprano voice and described singing as her first love.

Adelina Patti had a warm, crystalline, and very agile high soprano voice.

The best-known opera singers were the 19th century soprano Jenny Lind and the 20th century tenor Jussi Björling, who had great success abroad as a tenor.

Nightwish, is considered a pioneer of symphonic metal, that incorporates power metal as well as gothic metal in its music, and had Tarja Turunen, a classical singing soprano as its vocalist until 2005.

In 1885 Herbert became romantically involved with Therese Förster ( 1861 – 1927 ), a soprano who had recently joined the court opera for which the court orchestra played.

In Fall 1888, soprano Emma Juchs hired Herbert to music direct a " concert party " tour of cities and towns in the midwest that had seen little art music, presenting a quartet of singers in varied programs of songs, operatic scenes and arias to new audiences.

John Christie's fondness for music led him to hold regular amateur opera evenings in this room, and it was at one of these in 1931 that he met his future wife, the Sussex-born Canadian soprano Audrey Mildmay, a singer with the Carl Rosa Opera company who had been engaged to add a touch of professionalism to the proceedings.

* German composer Felix Mendelssohn began an opera in 1846 based on the legend of the Loreley Rhine maidens for Swedish soprano Jenny Lind, however, he died before he had the chance to finish it

( She had been recommended to Lehmann by another famous soprano of the previous generation, Lillian Nordica .).

The ensemble consists of about thirty musicians, including nine B cornets and one E cornet ( soprano cornet ) in the higher registers.

Pons was a principal soprano at the Met for thirty years, appearing 300 times in ten roles from 1931 until 1960.

No casts are listed, but Lotte Lehmann sent word that the Negro soprano, Grace Bumbry, will sing Venus in `` Tannhaeuser ''.

* Behold, God hath sent Elijah ( soprano )

* To The Name above every name, ( lyrics by Richard Crashaw ), for soprano, chorus and orchestra

* LeRoi Moore – bass clarinet, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, penny whistle

Studio percussion legend Emil Richards acquired a Leedy soprano vibraphone ( 3-octave range of C4-C7 ) in the 1980s from craftsman and restorer Gilberto at Century Mallet Service in Chicago ( run out of the old J. C. Deagan Instruments factory ).

* Mary Garden begins her 20 year reign as soprano of the Chicago Civic Opera

It was quite popular in its day and for a period after, especially in Chicago, where the great Polish soprano Rosa Raisa made it a celebrated vehicle.

Roerich befriended acclaimed soprano Mary Garden of the Chicago Opera and received a commission to design a 1922 production of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden for her.

Knussen wrote his Songs for Sue, a setting of four poems for soprano and 15-piece ensemble, as a memorial tribute to his late wife, and the music received its world première in Chicago in 2006.

Best New Classical Artist nominees for the 28th Grammy Awards ( 1986 ) included soprano Sarah Brightman for her work in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Requiem, Chicago Pro Musica for Stravinsky: L ' Histoire Du Soldat ( The Soldier's Tale-Suite ) and Walton: Façade ( An Instrumental Suite in the Original Scoring ), Rosalind Plowright, Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Brian Slawson for the album Bach on Wood.

The 2005 prize was won by American soprano Nicole Cabell who now regularly performs in opera houses across the world including London, Chicago and New York.

Chicago Sun Times critic Dorothy Andries described the sound of Bella Voce under Lewis as " like honey, rich and shining, with soprano voices soaring above the altos, tenors and basses, like light through darkness.

However, he returned to Chicago in 1958 to conduct Tristan once again, this time with the Chicago Lyric Opera and soprano Birgit Nilsson.

La Julia Rhea ( 1908 — 1992 ) was an American operatic soprano, and a pioneering African American figure in Chicago.

The Chicago Tribune noted that Anderson's " clear, bright upper range was at its clarion best, the soprano singing with strength and nuanced sensitivity " and hailed her acting as well: " ramatically, Anderson was exceptional, drawing out all of the conflicting emotions with an intensity tempered by dignity.

After debuts in Chicago, Dallas, Boston, and in San Francisco — where the Chronicles Robert Commanday wrote of her appearance in Monteverdi's L ' incoronazione di Poppea, " The means by which Poppea seduces Nero ... could liquefy even stone the way the sensational new mezzo soprano Tatiana Troyanos sang "— she returned to New York to make her Metropolitan Opera debut as Octavian, closely followed by the Composer, in the spring of 1976.