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...opera every night with shifting casts. Says Gilbert Helmsley, Caldwell's lighting designer and all-round production factotum: "She knows she makes good theater. She knows she makes good opera. I will never forget her sitting in her dressing room in 1974 and inhaling the applause for her Barber of Seville. Deep down inside, you know, she knows, that when 2,000 people are making that kind of noise after a production, you've done...
...does it can often be as much of a show as what the audience finally sees. Take the time she gave Beverly Sills the bird. In Barber, Sills portrayed the young and lovely Rosina, who is being kept a virtual prisoner by her guardian, Dr. Bartolo. Caldwell first had the notion that Rosina's room should be a bird cage, complete with swing. Then to underline the metaphor, Caldwell decided that Rosina should carry a small song bird in a miniature cage. And so, one afternoon Sills found herself in a shop on New York's Madison Avenue...
Caldwell can shriek at the chorus, growl at the stagehands, spit fire at a careless secondary singer, but usually will serve sweet honey to her soloists. She solicits their advice and often takes it. During rehearsals for Barber, Bass-Baritone Donald Gramm said that it might be fun if the glass in his hand broke as Sills hit a high C in the lesson scene. Caldwell loved the idea and put it in. "As both conductor "and director, I am very much aware that it is those people up there doing it onstage," she says. "I can help them...
...elected, Barber says he will bring in some of his fiscally conservative policies and try to fight the polarization between extreme liberals and conservatives with politically practical suggestions...
...exception to the parade of candidates attacking the University is Denis Barber '60 who maintains that the University "gives a lot more to the community than what it takes." Barber calls accusations of "land-grabbing" by the universities "unfair" and "exaggerated" and says that "poor Harvard is just ceaselessly and unfairly maligned...