I love Victor Herbert. The Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and LA Opera should do some of his operettas! Brilliant. I love Dorothy Kirsten as well. A very versatile singer and very dependable
Kirsten had a very blonde voice with a ladylike quality and a springy airy quality. She was the perfect everywoman soprano for ANY opera company. She could literally go on as Mimi or Tosca or Minnie and make them ALL work. She could easily go on as Cherubino Susanna or Contessa equally well. If the voice is pale medium sized, bright with an incisive quality in tte vowels possessing a good chest and high D all allied with a slim figure and medium height ....a lot can be done.
Thanks - we don't often hear this aspect of her vocal artistry. She must have had excellent training; tbe voice remained strong and frrsh well into her sixties (I think she did a Tosca at the Met aged 69 or thereabouts).
She could be wonderful in lighter lyric roles, french repertoire, and, perhaps, even some roles for coloratura soprano. She choose another path, and rightly so.
She was really wonderful!
I love Victor Herbert. The Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and LA Opera should do some of his operettas! Brilliant. I love Dorothy Kirsten as well. A very versatile singer and very dependable
I personally think Mlle. Modiste would be a great show to revive in a big glamorous production.
Kirsten had a very blonde voice with a ladylike quality and a springy airy quality. She was the perfect everywoman soprano for ANY opera company. She could literally go on as Mimi or Tosca or Minnie and make them ALL work. She could easily go on as Cherubino Susanna or Contessa equally well. If the voice is pale medium sized, bright with an incisive quality in tte vowels possessing a good chest and high D all allied with a slim figure and medium height ....a lot can be done.
That was wonderful! The only other rendition I’ve heard was by Beverly Sills, and they are both marvelous.
Thanks - we don't often hear this aspect of her vocal artistry. She must have had excellent training; tbe voice remained strong and frrsh well into her sixties (I think she did a Tosca at the Met aged 69 or thereabouts).
She did Cio - Cio San at the age of 63 and sounds twice younger than she actually was
it's a shame she never tapped into the Bel Canto repertoire, though of course she was still magnificent in Verismo works
She could be wonderful in lighter lyric roles, french repertoire, and, perhaps, even some roles for coloratura soprano. She choose another path, and rightly so.