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But it may have reached its peak with the opening of Mezzo's in Soho in September 1995.
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Cecilia Duarte, who sings the lead female role, Renata, is a classically trained mezzo-soprano who was born in Mexico and now lives in Houston.
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The project before this one was devoted to bringing Maria Malibran, a fellow mezzo with a brief but illustrious career in the 1830s, out of obscurity.
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Like the Tulsa Opera, the Lyric Opera has a history of supporting rising talent, none more significant than the mezzo Joyce DiDonato, who grew up in the Kansas City suburbs, on the Kansas side.
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The accomplished cast included the impassioned soprano Christina Boosahda as Bita, the Parvins' daughter, who greets them in Houston (her tahrir-inspired singing was very good), and mezzo Eve Gigliotti, touching as Mrs.
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As a mezzo, Ms Bartoli cannot match Farinelli's reportedly celestial tone, nor is she in possession of his man-sized lungs.
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First performed in Los Angeles 10 months ago, "Gospel" is written for three soloists two mezzo-sopranos and a tenor who take the parts of Mary Magdalene, her sister Martha, and their brother Lazarus.
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