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Helen Donath, sixty-two, has been singing beautifully for forty years. The gracious, vital American soprano closed the Chautauqua Symphony season August 20 in fine vocal form, singing two composers closely associated with her career: Mozart and Richard Strauss.
Donath's radiant voice retains its purity of tone, shining top and pinpoint attack, but it has developed a new refulgence, with a full, rich lower register. She sounded as if Agathe or even Elsa would be within reach; the Brooklyn Academy of Music has slated her "older, wiser" Despina for April. Major American orchestras shouldn't neglect her in favor of "flavor-of-the-month" Europeans.
Donath tore ...