Word: barbered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Barber Milton Pitts, who had trimmed both Reagan and Bush, shook their hands vigorously while proclaiming to the world, "I could not help noticing two good haircuts up on that stage." Pitts has not been summoned by the Clintonites...
...list of who got there early is impressive. For her, there were no years on the slow track, working in small European houses. Instead she was launched by TV, on a show called Fantastico. Managers began calling, and she made her operatic debut in The Barber of Seville in Rome. It was an unusual instance where the singer was the same age as the insouciant heroine. "When I sang Rosina at 20," she says, "I knew I felt like Rosina." In 1987 she appeared on French TV in a tribute to Maria Callas, reeling off the finale of La Cenerentola...
What comes next for this young virtuoso? The opera schedule is daunting: The Barber in Houston next spring, her American debut; Don Giovanni in a heavyweight Salzburg production conducted by Barenboim in 1994; the Met's Cosi fan tutte the following season. Bartoli is happily caught up in her repertory, but her fans, as well as many opera managers, already ache to see her expand it. Why not the big-money operas -- Verdi and, above all, Carmen...
...false dawn when Howard Hanson's Merry Mount and Deems Taylor's The King's Henchman, among other worthy pieces, took the stage at the Met only to disappear soon after. A few decades later, composers such as Douglas Moore (Baby Doe), Robert Ward (The Crucible) and Samuel Barber (Vanessa) made another attempt to establish American opera, but their works faded as well...
David Travis demonstrates amazing range as Todd, the ex-convict barber who seeks revenge on the men who destroyed his life. Travis manages to show Todd's intensity without letting the character slip into melodrama. Travis portrays Todd's inhumanely violent nature yet also his sincere despair over the loss of his wife and daughter. Travis' many musical numbers show off his terrific voice and his acting at its best. Like most of the cast he seems underdirected in straight dialogue scenes--particularly in the first...