Word: anselmo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...performance was superb, with Soprano Price handling her warm and lustrous voice impeccably, and infusing the figure of Minnie with a believable passion that might have surprised even Playwright Belasco. Tenor Richard Tucker did an admirable job as Dick Johnson, the silliest role in the opera, and Baritone Anselmo Colzani, the only Italian among the principal characters, swashbuckled through the role of the sheriff like a refugee from Gunsmoke. And although the opera provided few memorable arias (one striking exception: Johnson's "Ch'ella mi creda libero"), it had a score full of surgingly beautiful moments. The weakest...
...IRWIN DIAMOND San Anselmo, Calif...