Re: Trivia Question 2

Steve Newport wrote:
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John W. Kennedy) The first singer to be
> miked was Helen Traubel in "Pipe Dream". So it's a relatively narrow
> window. 
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> Not if she was singing from it. And SHE needed a mike?

Yeah.  Ironic, ain't it?  But remember that opera singers are _not_ used 
to daily performances.  (I've often said that the biggest difference 
between Brunhilde and Gräfin Maritza is that Brunhilde doesn't have to 
do seven shows a week.)  If you count up the actual minutes of singing 
Emile DeBecque does, you'll find the sum is minuscule; Pinza's contract 
specified that.

I've done them all over the years -- Broadway-style, Continental 
operetta, G&S, and grand opera.  The physical demands are different for 
all of them.

--
John W. Kennedy
"You can, if you wish, class all science-fiction
together; but it is about as perceptive as classing the
works of Ballantyne, Conrad and W. W. Jacobs together
as the 'sea-story' and then criticizing _that_."
  -- C. S. Lewis.  "An Experiment in Criticism"