Word: bellini
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London three years ago, a drawing that was labeled only "School of Francesco Cossa" brought $23,520. The same year a tiny Bellini showing Christ at the column went for $44,100. Last week at Sotheby's, a delicate little drawing of a wispy young woman by the 15th century Flemish Painter Hugo van der Goes made twice as much news. It was a study the master had made for a painting, possibly of St. Barbara. The painting has been lost; the study survived to fetch...
...evening had the makings of disaster. The opera was Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda, an obscure chronicle of intrigue and infidelity in medieval Italy, which flopped at its Venice premiere in 1833 and had not been done in the U.S. for a century. The American Opera Society's orchestra, awkwardly led by Conductor Nicola Rescigno, sounded coarse. The supporting cast in the concert performance was uninspired. Soprano Joan Sutherland's mother - her first voice teacher -had died the day before in London. But in her New York debut, Joan Sutherland proved what past appearances (London, Venice, Dallas...
Stand Up & Sing. Tne music of Nabucco was different from anything the earlier giants of Italian opera-Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti-had ever attempted. The choral writing was stronger, the general style more impassioned. Already Verdi was using his subsequently famous technique of writing sprightly, almost gay tunes for the grimmest situations and somehow getting away with it. Nabucco's weakness is that it has in its score little dramatic unity and that it tends to bog down in mere declamation ("It's one of those stand-up-there-and-sing operas," says Baritone Cornell MacNeil...
...said Maria Callas, "but you owe something to me, you know. After all, I persuaded you to sing roles like Lucia." She was speaking to a big, square-jawed Australian woman named Joan Sutherland, a former secretary who has won a sudden but solid reputation in the Bellini-Donizetti territory that Callas calls her own. Last week Soprano Sutherland, 33, was appearing at Britain's stylish Glyndebourne Festival in Bellini's I Puritani. On the lawn at intermission, as they were consuming their hamper-packed chicken-in-aspic suppers, members of the black-tied audience buzzed that Joan...
...George IV, who almost singlehanded brought bel canto opera to popularity in England in the early 18th century. Joan Sutherland sees no reason why she cannot perform the same service in the 20th century. "I will be happy," says she, "if I can just sing in every opera Bellini ever wrote...