Ole!
USE the traditional Spanish term of approval to salute the much-heralded, eagerly-awaited soprano, Victoria de los Angeles. There is no doubt in my mind, after hearing her sing with the National Orchestra last Saturday, that we are privileged to have with us one of the great singers of our time. Her voice has an exquisite smoothness, a delicious, bland ripeness; never opulent or fruity, it is always wonderfully pure. She does not offer the tang and bite that an artist like Conchita Supervia has led us to expect from Spanish sopranos; coolness, grace, refinement: these are her qualities, and she possesses them to a degree surely unrivalled. The Mozart Motet, Exsultate, Jubilate, was perhaps less exultant, less jubilant, than a more robust instrument would make it, but it was sung in the finest, most delicate taste, and the phrasing was superbly shapely. She threw off the intricate passages in the Alleluia with splendid assurance, and her last eight notes were glorious. Many of us have heard her recording of Turina’s Canto a Sevilla, with its ripe Debussy harmonies and subtle Iberian flavours. Here, her voice became at once richer and rounder, a beaker, if I may. say so, of the warm. south,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 897, 12 October 1956, Page 27
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203Ole! New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 897, 12 October 1956, Page 27
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