Steve + Eydie.
Played a Trivial Pursuit game a few weeks ago and I was the only one playing who had heard of these two.
Remembering 'La Stupenda' : Deceptive Cadence : NPR
On Joan Sutherland.
But often operatic singing is just too vocally heavy and vibrato laden for Broadway and pop fare. Listen to the bass Samuel Ramey on his 1996 album “Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye,” a program of 20th-century American art songs and standards. In Gershwin’s “They All Laughed,” when he delivers the line “But ho, ho, ho/who’s got the last laugh now!,” those ho-hos are so booming that he sounds like Mephistopheles.
Music - Renée Fleming’s Crossover to Rock, ‘Dark Hope’ - NYTimes.com. Hee hee hee. Renee Fleming’s voice is AMAZING, but like the critic here, I think opera singers attempting “crossover” isn’t always a good idea. Included in Ms. Fleming’s new album: her take on P. Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes”, Death Cab for Cutie’s “Soul Meets Body”, music by Arcade Fire, Mars Volta and Muse. Hmm…
Source: The New York Times
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