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Ibert's music is more animated and fresh than his plot. A composer who owes a lot to Debussy and Ravel, he gives his orchestra a palette full of colors, his 40 singers (at Tanglewood, all students) arias and choruses with wit, tune and charm. Le Roi is the...
So far, De Stoutz has installed 71 jukeboxes in Geneva, Zurich and Basel. Musical preferences run along regional lines: German Swiss like polkas, marches, German Lieder and cowboy songs; French Swiss choose American jazz and French songs; Italian Swiss insert their 20-cen-time pieces for the arias of Beniamino...
At heart, Menotti is a melodic composer for whom "melody is a form of remembrance ... it must have a quality of inevitability in our ears." His arias come to him easily, his long recitatives more painfully. "The hardest work I do," he says, "is on the little musical phrases in...
When Anna-Lisa, still slim and pretty at 38, sang her first aria, from Puccini's Gianni Schicci, her bright-colored soprano was tight and quivering with nerves. It loosened up in arias from Gounod's Romeo and Juliet and Charpentier's Louise. By the time she...
The present tenant at the Kenmore, Verdi's "Rigoletto," was filmed entirely on the stage of the Rome Opera House with singers recruited from La Seals. There has been no attempt to make it anything more than a celluloid recording of a performance. No dialogue has been added (and subtitling...