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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...
...minor characters each preserve the rugged uniqueness of the mountain people: Pablo, the guerilla leader, animal-like and cowardly, dulled with wine and inactivity; Pilar, his woman, who assumes command when he no longer cares; Anselmo, the old Pacifist, who is forced to kill to support the Republic...
...woman tagged as Anna Battachi got worse, was moved into bed No. 19 in the ward. The one tagged as Giuseppina Mettlica was moved into bed No. 33. The hospital called Anna Battachi's brother Anselmo to visit his failing sister. He sat for hours beside bed No. 19. The patient was in an oxygen mask, unrecognizable, unable to talk. Soon she died. Anna's sister Cesira, hurriedly summoned from Bologna, went to the mortuary and screamed: "This isn't my sister." A male nurse told her confidently: "Faces change after death. That was your sister...
Last week Luis Andrade went to the Claretian monastery in the town of Bosa, near Bogotaã for services marking his entrance into the novitiate. After the ceremony he had a last chat with old political friends. Then, taking the name Brother Anselmo, Luis Ignacio Andrade, 63, turned and climbed a flight of stairs to Cell No. 23. Later he will serve a two-year novitiate in Rome, where he was once the Colombian Ambassador to the Holy See. After that he will become a missionary, probably in the Far East...