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Date sent: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 18:35:56 EST
Subject: Re: Un bel di questions
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In a message dated 01/24/2000 5:14:18 PM Central Standard Time,
Sopran-at-aol.com writes:

<< Although Un bel di may be perfectly comfortable to sing in a small room
with
piano accompaniment, it is quite another animal in an auditorium with
orchestra. >>

Just like my recordings of "Depuis le jour" ... one is with Kathleen Battle
and piano, which is lovely and delicate; and the other is with Renee Fleming
and orcheestra, which is also lovely but much more appropriate. Battle would
have been dwarfed by an orchestra of that size. For that matter, I can sing
"Stride la vampa" or "Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix" with piano (and would if I
were doing a concert of "typical" mezzo rep) but would never DREAM of doing
it in a master class or audition setting!

Chris Thomas
Mezzo-Soprano
Wauwatosa, WI

"I love to sing-a, about the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a"