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...Anna in Don Giovanni, Liu in Turandot. Her Leonora proved to be a remarkable portrayal of a woman in whom dignity struggled with desperation and in whom grief somehow shone more movingly through a profound sense of repose. The amalgam of qualities made her fourth act aria D'amor sull'ali rosee a dramatic as well as a technical triumph. It was perhaps the most wildly applauded moment of the present Met season-a season made somewhat lackluster by several dull, slack productions but rendered memorable by what seemed like a new age of brilliant singers, most notably...
...determination is undergirded by a powerful religious faith (she is the granddaughter of two Methodist ministers). She talks about "the Omnipotent" as naturally as if he were her neighbor. "I never go onstage," says Leontyne, "without saying a prayer-sometimes an extra prayer before arias like D'amor sull'ali rosee in Trovatore or O patria mia in Aïda." And the debut? "I just stood there in the wings and thought: 'Dear Jesus, you got me into this...
...opulent in the upper as the lower registers, and it negotiated the distance between them with liquid ease. It never strained. Her muted trills alone were enough to justify the Italian critic who was reminded of "a skylark under bewitchment." When she completed the Act IV aria, D'amor sull'ali rosee, she received the kind of ovation that at the Met signifies unconditional surrender...
...Fille's plot is as wispy as a ruffled tutu: Lise, daughter of a prosperous farmer, falls in love with a strapping lad named Colas, but is opposed by her mother, who wants her to marry Alain, idiot son of a wealthy vineyard owner. Lovers outwit mother, amor vincit omnia, curtain. The original score was probably written by an unknown member of the Bordeaux Grand Theater Orchestra, was later revised by Ferdinand Herold, chorus master of the Paris Opera, who included such pirated tidbits as the overture to Barber of Seville, As for the choreography-originally by Jean Bercher...
...only 'constant' was his bitter hatred of anything having to do with religion." ¶ Biographer Justino Fernandez: "Orozco is hard on God at the Day of Judgment, because he felt that the punishments meted out to sinful men were too severe." ¶ Dealer Inés Amor: "He hated mankind, if ever a man did. 'All Indians,' he used to say, 'are ugly.' Why was he bitter? Because of his life, his failures, his poverty, his obsessive inferiority complex." ¶ Writer Alma Reed: "He had compassion and humanity above all other painters...