smidge said: "AC126748 said: "Perhaps the greatest American coloratura of the 20th century. I was listening to an early recording of her Zerlina last night and it was absolutely astonishing. She continued to sing in opera until well into her sixties, and gave the occasional recital until just recently. Talk about technique.
She was a great crossover artist, as well; I treasure my vinyl of her recording of CAROUSEL with John Raitt.
Do you mean her recording with Alfred Drake? Was a recording made with Raitt and Peters?
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No, you're absolutely correct. I was confusing my recordings; hers was with Drake.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
