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Word: bartolo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Seville. Levine had seen and heard it countless times before. That did not matter to the man charged with preserving and restoring the troubled company's musical excellence. He prefers to make his own quality checks, and besides, a new bass, Andrew Foldi, was singing his first Bartolo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Met's Young Master | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music's Wonder Woman | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

...OPERA Company runs into occasional problems. John Davies doesn't really have the voice for Bartolo's lowest notes. Diana Hoagland more than rises to the occasion of the Countess's big third-act aria, but some of her earlier attempts at acting seem a good bit closer to Lucia's madness than Rosina's anger. Sunday night's orchestra didn't seem to approve of them, either--the strings swung briefly out of tune for the introduction to her first aria, something that didn't happen again until the whole orchestra--previously more than competent--began to fall apart...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: A Rite of Fall | 10/8/1974 | See Source »

...dredging up, say, Cornelius' The Barber of Baghdad! She is doing what any savvy impresario would do-playing to her strength. When a loyal Caldwellite like Beverly Sills is willing to sing her first Rosina, and that master of operatic disguise Donald Gramm is equally eager to sing Bartolo, the savvy thing to do is put on The Barber of Seville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Barber of Boston | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

...gags never intrude on purely musical moments, but when they come they are fresh and funny. Figaro enters not from the wings but from-the audience, beginning the Largo al factotum at about row S. In the lesson scene Rosina hits a high C and the glass in Bartolo's hand shatters. During the Act II storm, Bartolo's hat and umbrella are swept skyward by the wind (on a wire, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Barber of Boston | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

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