Per the Aria-man Database....
opera: EDGAR
role: Tigrana - mezzosoprano; fach: dramatic mezzo
selection: Tu il cuor mi strazi
range: C4 to A#/Bb6
tessitura: D#/Eb4 to D#/Eb5
Is this selection mighty enough? I don't know...opinions?
----Original Message-----
>From: Elizabeth Finkler <mightymezzo@h...>
>From: Elizabeth Finkler <mightymezzo@h...>
>To: vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com
>Cc:
>Subject: Re: [vocalist] "Excerptable" Puccini for mezzos
>Reply-To: vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com
>Date: Thursday, March 29, 2001 4:35 AM
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>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
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>>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)
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>>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
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>>My Website:
>>http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html
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>>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
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>Elizabeth Finkler
>Sunnyvale, California
>mightymezzo@h...
>http://home.earthlink.net/~mightymezzo
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>"If you must be wrong, be wrong at the top of your voice!" --Lucy Van
Pelt
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