hooty

True, her sound is raw in places, and her full-voiced top notes can be hooty.

You make like a little hooty owl?"

With all its pumped-up emotions, hooty singers and absurd recitative, who needs it?"

The performance seems authoritative, although Stefania Woytowicz's soprano is sometimes hooty.

The voice itself is of good quality and apparently of good size, though somewhat hooty and inflexible.

Norman Carlberg (Friedrich) sang the male lead with woolly tone and hooty delivery.

Elena Zaremba emphasized the darkened, slightly hooty lower region of her voice, which caused her high notes to be strident.

Livia Budai, a Hungarian mezzo-soprano with a hooty voice and little dramatic authority, failed utterly as Azucena.

Vocally weaker, but dramatically enjoyable, is Rachel Calloway's Grand Duchess, with a slightly hooty mezzo.

When they did swell over the band's workmanlike drums and overly hooty organ, they often competed with the flippant charm of Ms. Crow's older hits.

The countertenor James Bowman sang Polinesso with formidable musical skill that did not, for this listener, outweigh the basic unsatisfactoriness of the hooty sound he makes.

Some of them do opera, but with hooty tones and coy interpretive feints and dodges that do not satisfy anyone who wants to hear the music well and truly sung.

Unlike Ms. Larmore, Mr. Black, an Australian, seemed a little hyper at the start, sounding hooty and playing fast and loose with pitch as well as tempo.

The wind was cold and rank, a wet, hooty marsh wind, and it leaped here and there in the room like a gleeful animal discovering the flimsiness of human beings.

Now they could hear such classics as "Torture Rock," "Beaver Shot," and the amazing "Hooty Sapper-ticker" by Barbara & the Boys whenever they so desired.

There are the benefits of sea and sands and since cars have to be abandoned for the final approach, there is the pleasure of a short journey in a hooty little tin train.

Alexandrina Milcheva sounded rather hooty as La Cieca, and Paul Plishka gave another of his vocally competent, dramatically neutral performances as the murderous Alvise.

Ms. Galvany, a former soprano, had a hooty sound with something of a wobble; Mr. Martin's baritone, a rapid vibrato that makes him sound forced and shallower than need be.

As Alceste's beloved, Carilda, Jennifer Hines produced a deep, thick contralto from a tiny body - initially hooty, but less so after the vocal calisthenics required of her in the second half.

And the child-baking witch (the soprano Marilyn Zschau) was a green-tongued hag who cavorted so comically and sang with such hooty tone that she gave many children in the audience giggle fits.

As the widowed duchess Federica, eager to marry Rodolfo, the mezzo Denyce Graves began with an alarming hooty quality but brought more focus and clarity to her second scene, far more attractive.

Also hooty at first was Alan Dornak, the countertenor playing the Cretan general Tauride (a role originally written for a mezzo-soprano), garbed like Frankenstein's monster, down to the clunky platform boots.

It's a lovely lyric mezzo-soprano, reaching from a firm chest voice (which she, like many of her Eastern European counterparts, seems less shy about using than many Western singers), solid yet not hooty, up to a shining top.

We waited for 'em right where you said, at the second fork where the hill and trees 'id us good, but nawt did we see t'whole time but a little nightbird and an old hooty owl."

Debutante No. 3 was Kathryn Cowdrick, a solid if slightly hooty mezzo, as the sneezing maidservant Berta; while the fourth, Leigh Melrose, tried to mask his vocal inadequacies with comic mugging as Figaro.