Another possibility would be Suzuki's prayer, which opens the second act of "Madama Butterfly."
Didn't write much for us mighty mezzos, did he?
Liz
>From: Karen Mercedes <dalila@R...> >From: Karen Mercedes <dalila@R...> >Reply-To: vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com >To: vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com >Subject: [vocalist] "Excerptable" Puccini for mezzos >Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:34:42 -0500 (EST) > >I've decided the closest Puccini comes to an excerptable aria for mezzo is >La Frugola's paen to her cat in IL TABARRO. There are interjections by >Giorgetta, but I think those can be edited out reasonably successfully, >resulting in a musically not-too-engaging but comically delightful aria >for mezzo. > >Karen Mercedes >===== >My NEIL SHICOFF Website: >http://www.radix.net/~dalila/shicoff/shicoff.html > >My Website: >http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html > >----- >We're sitting in the opera house; >We're waiting for the curtain to arise >With wonders for our eyes, >A feeling of expectancy, >A certain kind of ecstasy, >Expectancy and ecstasy....Sh's's's. > > - Charles Ives > > > > > > > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > >
Elizabeth Finkler Sunnyvale, California mightymezzo@h... http://home.earthlink.net/~mightymezzo
"If you must be wrong, be wrong at the top of your voice!" --Lucy Van Pelt
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