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Thriller: Powerhouse mezzo Dolora Zajick always delivers
At the top of the pyramid, many an artist basks in the memory of some great nay-sayer who tried, back when, to block the way. "Give it up," the false prophet advised. "You're no good." Dolora Zajick tells another tale. "When I started, I had no high notes, no low notes and no coloratura," she says. "My voice was ugly and loud."
Spend a few hours with the reigning dramatic mezzo of the age,and you will recognize the comment as entirely characteristicfrank, unsentimental, unsparingly analytical. "I don't have a natural vocal technique," she continues. "It took a while to fish out what was in there. I had the great fortune of having a technician as a teacher."
When it comes to technique, Zajick is a believer. "The greatest artists are sublimators," she declares, "and technically oriented. When you're connected technically, you empty out all the energy that is in you -- that is you. All the anguish, joy, everything. That's what people pay to see."
The technician who helped Zajick on her way is Ted Puffer, formerly of the University of Nevada and head of Opera Nevada, now on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music. "He had something to offer, and I had the ability to absorb," Zajick explains simply.
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The Art of Dramatic Mezzo-Soprano
Internationally acclaimed as that rare voice type, a true dramatic Verdi mezzo, Dolora Zajick has sung the composer’s three most famous and difficult roles in that category: Azucena, Amneris and Eboli (in Trovatore, Aida, and Don Carlo, respectively) all over the world with such companies as the Metropolitan Opera, Chicago’s Lyric, the San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Italy’s La Scala, London’s Covent Garden, the mammoth Arena of Verona, and many more.
“Ms. Zajick is a dramatic mezzo-soprano with a powerful voice and an enormous range,” wrote Anthony Tommasini in the New York Times. He goes on to term her range “exceptional: from a chesty C below middle C to the Queen of the Night’s high-soprano F, sung at full voice.” In addition to her roles in Verdi operas, which also include Lady Macbeth in Macbeth and Ulrica in Ballo in Maschera, she has sung starring roles as the Princess in Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur; the title role in Tchaikovsky’s Joan of Arc; Marfa in Moussorgsky’s Khovanshchina; Santuzza in Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, Dalila in Saint-Saens’ Samson et Dalila; Adalgisa in Bellini’s Norma, and the title rol