Word: aria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody can explain just how the operas of Giuseppe Verdi became an "electrical communication with the spirit of the time." The idea "just grew"-to the point where Italian patriots detected in the most innocent little note or inflection of a Verdi aria a cry for liberty and revolt. When Cavour received one night the telegram that began Italy's second War of Independence, he said not a word to his aides. He merely flung the window open and bellowed a phrase of Verdi's // Trovatore to his sleeping countrymen...
...Brien Nicholas '59, performed an aria in Bach's Cantata No. 41 with a freshness and grace which excelled even her own past performances. The other soloists, Thomas Beveridge '59, Ruth Oeste '58, and Karl Dan Sorensen, also possess very fine voices. The only villains of the evening were the trumpets, particularly the second, who came near to turning the Bach into a shambles...
...album Anything Goes (RCA Camden), coaxes surprisingly sensuous sonorities out of his pedal harpsichord. His album achieves a fusion of styles that he refuses to label either jazz or classical. In I Could Have Danced All Night, for instance, he starts with a theme from Rodolfo's aria, Che gelida manina from La Bohème, develops the second chorus as a Mozart sonatina, cuts loose briefly with a sample of stride harpsichord, returns to Bohème in the coda. The album should send hi-fi bugs skittering, but no sound on it is as fascinating...
...conventions of the genre are utilized with unabashed audacity. The recitative and aria da capo turn up all over the place with genuinely satiric twists, as well as cadences which would have sent Rossini right out of the auditorium. The proceedings were further disrupted by the intrusion of a full-fledged jazz number. Mr. Perkins has an especially disarming command of dissonance, which he uses tastefully and moderately to underline the humorous aspects of the music...
...role, Italian Soprano Antonietta Stella, 28, made her Cio-Cio-San a wonderful complex of childish fever and womanly fire, effectively underplayed the bathetic frills the role is heir to. Her large, easily ranging voice shimmered and soared ecstatically, brought the house alive with a roar after her famous aria...