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...passes from forward tenors without missing a note. For a while, she learned a role a month for TV's Opera Cameos, finally hit the big time two seasons ago when she sang Donna Elvira in the San Francisco Opera's Don Giovanni ("the most exquisitely sung aria of the evening," wrote one critic...
...almost all of his contemporaries, Mozart was just another court composer, more unconventional and therefore worse than scores of his competitors. The elderly Haydn recognized his genius; so did the young Beethoven. Not so Emperor Joseph II, Mozart's patron, who once said of a Mozart aria: "It has too many notes in it." ("Sire, just as many as there ought to be," Mozart retorted.) Nor did Mozart's wife Constanze (younger sister of his old love, Aloysia) see his greatness. She had her own creating to do. Of their nine years of marriage, she spent...
...program was almost all Italian arias songs. The only composer of the German school represented was Mozart, and he by an Italian aria from The Marriage of Figaro. The most successful song was Bellini's Dolente Immagine, in which Tebaldi lingered over every vowel, almost caressing the notes with her voice. Another highlight was the magnificent Ave Maria from Verdi's Otello, which despite one shrill phrase was memorable for a ravishing final high note in mezza-voce. The audience went wild, and called Tebaldi back for three Puccini arias as encores. She didn't mind the tiring program...
...performed at Kent School, Conn.; 3) a piano concerto, to be played at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music next month; 4) a symphony, his third, which the Boston Symphony Orchestra expects to play in March. The Louisville Orchestra, under Robert Whitney, premiered the cantata-really a solo aria the size of a full-grown concerto. Titled Idyll of Theocritus, it was even more imposing than previous jam Sessions...
...cooking and children (the Reagans have two). Nevertheless, she managed to sing 60 concerts a year across the U.S. This year she decided to cut down in favor of Manhattan appearances and guest shots. Her usual New York dates: three a year with the high-minded, highly popular Bach Aria Group, plus regular appearances on The Telephone Hour...