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...will be conducting it next season at the Met. Next day brought a meeting at a midtown hotel about this June's Ravinia Festival near Chicago, of which he is music director. Then home for a two-hour nap, dinner, and off to the Met to conduct Aida...
...effect, the Met is being run by committee. How well that succeeds only time will tell. The staging of the ambitious new production of Aida, introduced a fortnight ago, turned out to be dull and far too stylized, but musically it was exciting. The Triumphal Scene was a staggering series of orchestral and choral climaxes. The Nile Scene, that exotic musical fantasy conjured up by Verdi to heighten the opera's denouement, shimmered with color and mystery...
...Jewish leaders got the public statement last week when Mexico's U.N. Delegate Aida Gonzalez Martinez declared that if Zionism simply meant "the legitimate national aspirations of the Jewish people," then it should not be equated with "colonialism and apartheid." Immediately afterward, however, the Mexicans cast another vote validating an anti-Zionist resolution, this one embodied in the declaration of the International Women's Year Conference. Across the U.S., Jewish groups and even some non-Jewish ones continued canceling millions of dollars worth of group bookings to Mexico...
...sheer power and poise to make the music conform to her character's needs. Home sings as though she has never had a finer, more rewarding role. That comes close to being the case. Mezzos have an abundance of supporting parts, often villainesses, in their repertory (Amneris in Aida, Ortrud in Lohengrin), but few star vehicles. Home is trying to interest the Metropolitan Opera in Rinaldo, and the Met would do well to listen...
...Pamir a, the doomed daughter of the governor of Corinth, Sills successfully re-established her claim as the most radiant and musical of prima donnas. The dilemmas that Pamira finds herself in would try even Aida, and Sills rose to them all. Briefly, Pamira loves Maometto (Bass Justino Diaz), the leader of the attacking Turks. Her father wants her to marry the Greek warrior Neocle (Mezzo Verrett...