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Can't remember the name just at this moment, but I'd like to sing like the one who was Anna in 'The King and I' and Maria in 'West Side Story'.
I used to love to sing when younger - choirs, etc.
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Can't remember the name just at this moment, but I'd like to sing like the one who was Anna in 'The King and I' and Maria in 'West Side Story'.
I used to love to sing when younger - choirs, etc.
Movie, Broadway or West End? Anna was created by Gertrude Lawrence and in the film was, I think, Deborah Kerr (don't know if she was dubbed or not.) I think Maria was Mary Martin on Broadway and was the one and only Dame Julie on film. |
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« Reply #17 on: 21:10:25, 25-06-2007 » |
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Can't remember the name just at this moment, but I'd like to sing like the one who was Anna in 'The King and I' and Maria in 'West Side Story'.
You must mean Marni Nixon. She could also sing Webern most beautifully (as on Robert Craft's recordings). As for my choice: perhaps Richard Lewis or (sex change permitting) Sylvia McNair. Impossible choice really. |
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #18 on: 22:09:10, 25-06-2007 » |
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Were I tenor rather than a bass-baritone then Richard Lewis would get my vote as well: a fabulous voice: I was lucky enough to see him sing Achilles (King Priam) and Vere (Billy Budd) at the Garden several times - if it couldn't be him then Alberto Remedios would be fine, too. Or Alexander Young.
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« Reply #19 on: 22:12:57, 25-06-2007 » |
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Well, when I was a young boy I could and did sing - solos in church choir and school carol concerts, that sort of thing - but nature took its inevitable course...
Having sung bass in choirs on and off over the years, I think I would like to be a real basso cantate - Sarastro, Philip II, that sort of thing. Much more interesting repertory than tenors.
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Anna was created by Gertrude Lawrence and in the film was, I think, Deborah Kerr (don't know if she was dubbed or not.) I believe she was dubbed by Marni Nixon, whose mic, if I remember correctly, was fitted with some sort of filter to emphasize the lower partials so she'd sound older. I think Nixon also subbed for Natalie Wood in West Side Story. (I just noticed that Rauschwerk beat me to the punch - nice work.) I want to sing like Renato Bruson, by the way. |
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« Reply #22 on: 22:38:29, 25-06-2007 » |
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I wanted to sound like Ileana Cotrubas when I was a teenager, before I'd actually taken up singing. At 18 I discovered I was a squeaky coloratura, more like this:  But now, who would I like to sound like? Hmm...Paul Robeson. |
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« Reply #23 on: 22:52:26, 25-06-2007 » |
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I agree with Tommo about wanting a wonderful baritone voice like Hvorostovsky. I don't sing, but have a bass-baritonish voice - would love to have the dark, saturnine voice of Boris Christoff!  |
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« Reply #24 on: 22:57:12, 25-06-2007 » |
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Did you ever see him as Boris Gudonov, IGI? That was a performance and a half; a real scenery-chewer....and that mesmerising first entrance where even from right at the front of the stage you knew that the eyes in the back of his head were watching every movement of the mob behind him...
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« Reply #25 on: 23:08:20, 25-06-2007 » |
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No, Ron, too young to have seen him on stage as my opera going didn't start until after he'd finished performing. I have seen a film of him in 'La Forza' as Padre Guardiano, though, and I read a biography, in which he often came across as a not particularly pleasant person. But what a voice! I love his recording of Boris Godunov, the stereo one, where he also sings Varlaam and Pimen, characterising his voice so differently. His Philip II is matchless, for me, especially the La Scala recording on DG - wow!
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« Reply #26 on: 08:25:38, 26-06-2007 » |
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A recording of Anthony Rolfe Johnson on Radio 3 this morning reminded me that if I were a man I would like to sound like him. It also reminded me of a comment I heard about him not long ago - that he (allegedly!) used his beautiful voice to seduce women. A friend of mine commented drily, "Well, he couldn't use his face, could he?"
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« Reply #27 on: 08:43:18, 26-06-2007 » |
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If I were a man I would like to sound like
any of the following
Tom Allen,Gerhard Husche, Alexander Kipnis, Charles Panzera,John Cameron,Bruce Boyce.
If I were a woman I should like to sound like Dora Labbette, Olga Haley, Elisabeth Schumann, Lotte Lehmann,Kathleen Ferrier.
I should like to look like (homme) Gian Carlo Menotti in the 1950s,or (femme) Sandrine Viollet,the presenter of a new series on BBC2 tonight at 9. .
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« Reply #28 on: 09:16:06, 26-06-2007 » |
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A recording of Anthony Rolfe Johnson on Radio 3 this morning reminded me that if I were a man I would like to sound like him. It also reminded me of a comment I heard about him not long ago - that he (allegedly!) used his beautiful voice to seduce women. A friend of mine commented drily, "Well, he couldn't use his face, could he?"
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« Reply #29 on: 10:18:56, 26-06-2007 » |
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A recording of Anthony Rolfe Johnson on Radio 3 this morning reminded me that if I were a man I would like to sound like him. It also reminded me of a comment I heard about him not long ago - that he (allegedly!) used his beautiful voice to seduce women. A friend of mine commented drily, "Well, he couldn't use his face, could he?"
That wouldn't work for me. It's no good waking up in the morning, looking at someone and saying "for God's sake sing to me!" !!! |
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