Word: arias
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...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...
Glorious Moment. Stars from the San Francisco or Metropolitan Opera appear from time to time in the audience, occasionally join in an aria or two. So far, none has provided the hoped-for Hollywood fadeout to the Bocce story by discovering a great new singer. But the Bocce has had at least one glorious moment: five years ago, with 3,300 tickets sold for a Pacific Opera performance of Pagliacci, Tenor Ernest Lawrence phoned to say he was too sick to sing Canio. Two hours before curtain time, Director Arturo Casiglia reached Bocce Tenor Arthur Peters, zipped him into...
MARY CURTIS-VERNA, 30, a tall (5 ft. 7 in.), Massachusetts-born dramatic soprano, has become the Metropolitan's most highly publicized relief aria-pitcher in the year since she joined the company. Three times this season she substituted for ailing divas in starring roles (once, on three hours' notice and without rehearsal, she sang Donna Anna when Eleanor Steber fell ill), while maintaining her own schedule of Toscas, Leonoras and Aïdas. Unfortunately, there is more drama in her last-minute appearances offstage than on: her singing, often attractive enough, has little spark, often wins only...
...strenuous fasting, has wasted himself away to a mere 200 Ibs., and his tone is as plump as a Percheron's rump. As a musician, though, Lanza owes perhaps too much to his early conditioning as a delivery man for a wholesale grocer. No matter how light the aria, he delivers it-grunting and sweating and rolling his eyes -like a crate of olive...