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...certainly seems seductive at the moment," says producer Ira Pittelman, who hopes to have a musical based on the Oscar-winning Moonstruck in workshop this fall. "People are looking to classic films and, in a way, Moonstruck is an aria with big, wide emotions." And if you can't wait for these shows to make the long trip to the stage, the first post-Producers movie-inspired musical is already here: The It Girl, about the life of silent-screen-star Clara Bow, which New York City's York Theater Company has just opened off-Broadway...
...overture exuded an almost electric energy, other numbers seemed slightly rushed. Tamino and Pamina’s Act II duet could have luxuriated longer in its loving lyricism, and Weigle’s charge into part two of the Queen of the Night’s big first act aria was a bit too fast for soprano Mary Dunleavy, resulting in an awkward adjustment as her coloratura fireworks begin. Nor was Dunleavy vocally perfect. In her Act II showstopper she seemed so obsessed with hitting those high Fs that the other notes of her arpeggios were just a bit sharp...
...search for the next supertenors accents fears within the classical record industry that its efforts to ape the pop world might bring disasters of operatic proportions. For record bosses the result could be, as the famous aria from Puccini's Turandot has it, Nessun dorma: nobody sleeps...
...enough people in attendance for the horrified gasp to be as loud as it deserved to be. After Bridgewater handed out her share of awards she then sang a brief bit of "Happy Birthday" to mark co-presenters Charlotte Church's 15th birthday. Church responded with a brief aria. Impressed bby Church's performance, co-host David Foster added in his two cent by quipping "I'm gonna go home and slap my 15 year-old. No, that's not true. Yes, it is." Maybe that's why you don't see this stuff on television...
...Bartoli sang two arias from Judith Triumphans that were positively fiery, including the staccato "Armatae face, et Angibus," and then sang the fun, upbeat aria of Leocasta "Sventurata Navicella" from Giustino. (Indeed, this seems to be a favorite of Bartoli's, when, during her fifth encore, she had evidently run out of things to sing, she sang "Sventurata Navicella" for a second time...