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Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, with American Basso Giorgio Tozzi. Color...
...also has a sizable reputation as an amateur swordsman: last year he leaped into a box at the Naples San Carlo Opera House during a performance of Il Trovatore to attack a heckling spectator. Two years earlier, at the Rome Opera, he crossed swords with Basso Boris Christoff, who, he claimed, was upstaging him, wounded Christoff in the finger and was slapped with a damage suit...
...orchestra with crackling vitality in last week's II Maestro and II Barbiere, Conductor Bertil Bokstedt was resplendent in the silk robe of an 18th century courtier. Onstage, Sweden's gifted young singers-Soprano Karin Langebo, Tenors Carl-Axel Hallgren, Arne Ohlson, Uno Stjernquist, and Basso Arne Tyren-wore the periwigs fashionable at the time of Queen Lovisa...
...fawning eulogies of steady booster Nikita Khrushchev. . . . Wealthy Pasta King Giovanni Buitoni's money is in his tummy, but his heart is really in his throat. The 68-year-old macaroni maker is going into opera, he says, to "fulfill one of my fondest dreams," will sing the basso profundo role of Don Basilic in a charity performance of The Barber of Seville with a Manhattan opera company early next year. Signora Buitoni. an ex-coloratura soprano who knows all about Giovanni's booming arias, will attend his operatic debut. "After that," quipped Buitoni. "she will probably...
Lucine Amara, Tenor Nicolai Gedda, Basso Jerome Hines in a program of classical music. Color...