A SINGER'S THEATRICAL APPROACH TO SIBELIUS.Byline: Scott Duncan Adam Scott Mattewson Duncan (November 2, 1888 - October 3, 1976) was a Scottish professional footballer and manager. Playing career Scott Duncan, born in Dumbarton, was working as a law clark when he joined his hometoon club Dumbarton in 1906. Orange County Register Finnish soprano soprano [Ital.,=above], female voice of highest pitch. The three basic types of solo soprano are coloratura, lyric, and dramatic. The coloratura has a great range and impressive vocal agility; the lyric soprano has a light, pretty voice; and the dramatic soprano has Karita Mattila Karita Mattila (born September 5 1960 in Somero, Finland), is a leading opera soprano. She won the first Cardiff Singer of the World Competition in 1983 and graduated from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki where she studied with Liisa Linko-Malmio. made a big impression in the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Metropolitan Opera's ``Queen of Spades'' this season, and now she is showcased on a disc of Sibelius songs on the Ondine label. Her voice is large and flexible, focused on top and capable of pealing waves of sound or refinement as the music demands. She sings with a keen sense of feeling and theatricality in these 24 songs taken from the first two decades of this century. Set to the poetry of Finland's J.L. Runeberg and others, these Sibelius songs are filled with sweeping melody and dramatic appeal. Brief and sketchlike at times, the songs' romantic poetry is well-suited to the Sibelius musical idiom. Mattila inhabits them splendidly, and her accompanist, Ilmo Ranta, is excellent. |
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