Still, Ms. Rost is, like Ms. Bartoli and Ms. Karasova, a good example of a young singer, steeped in the bel canto tradition, with much to offer.
She seems another troubling example of a young singer who through sheer determination is pushing an essentially light, bright and agile voice into a role far too weighty for it.
But she landed an ensemble contract at a larger house, in Freiburg, and she has started making more prestigious guest appearances at theaters like the Stuttgart Opera: a textbook example of a young singer climbing the ensemble ladder.
He performed the bolero "Corazón Rebelde," thickly and dreamily arranged by Mr. Mossman, and it was a rare example of a Latin singer singing in Spanish over an all-American jazz group playing Latin music.
I worked with Linda Ronstadt for a number of years and she is a great example of a female singer with teardrops in her voice.
The return engagement of Paulo Szot, the smoldering Polish-Brazilian baritone, to the Café Carlyle, singing largely the same program he performed there in his nightclub debut last fall, is an encouraging example of an opera singer belatedly finding his pop mojo.
A comparison would be the famous example of an opera singer maintaining a high note long enough to shatter glass.
Thom, though it's doubtful she wants to hear this right now, is just the most recent and most public example of a once successful singer finding all the doors being bolted on them.
Martha Wainwright, on the other hand, was super-flappable: here's a good example of a young folk singer, a beneficiary in some sense of Ms. Mitchell's work, yet she had never performed the master's tunes and had only learned "Big Yellow Taxi" earlier that day.
