Word: angelos
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With little of the drum-beating that preceded the debuts this season of Anna Moffo, Eileen Farrell and Leontyhe Price, the Metropolitan Opera last week introduced Manhattan audiences to yet another fine American soprano-Hartford-born Gianna D'Angelo. Soprano D'Angelo, 31, made her debut portraying one of the silliest of all operatic heroines, Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto. But she triumphed over the role with such apparent ease that by evening's end she was firmly fixed as one of the Met's most promising sopranos...
...Along with a clear, flexible lyric voice, Soprano D'Angelo displayed impeccable pitch, remarkably even control, and all the agility necessary for the coloratura turns and trills of her role. Moreover, with the aid of a face and figure far more appealing than operagoers are accustomed to, she brought rare poignancy and passion to the incredibly motivated role of Gilda (although the Duke has just ditched her for another girl, she sacrifices her life to save his from the hired bandit, Sparafucile). The Met audience, taken by surprise, gave Soprano D'Angelo several ovations, most notably after...
...supporting Faulknerian types who around on the front porch country store, self-styled cates with a Hemingway can be seen in person every the pages of Al Capp and Kelly. Some of the dialogue as though it was lifted from time vaudeville. For example Turk, (Angelo's sheriff) turnkey, drunk on election to do a little between themselves...
Contacted in Nashville at what sounded like quite a gay autographing party for his first novel, Halberstam told us a little about how he came to write the tale of Angelo the neurotic bootlegger...
...quite sure just who ROMAN is. Al-Angelo is Italian, he may Roman; and McCalla does noble way out. No matter is, he must be a very . If you have nothing do, go out and look him will certainly roll off your couple of times...