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...Brio with Jerry Bergonzi--the Willow, 699 Broadway, Somerville...
While the official entrants are talking confidently of sub-2:50 times, several unofficial Harvard runners are just hoping to cross the finish line on Hereford Street. Chris Bergonzi of Adams House and Armonk, N.Y. "had a horrendous time" when he ran in the Silver Lake race. Injured Harvard baseball player Steve Shevick of Evanston, Ill. has no previous racing experience but spent the last four weeks averaging ten miles a day in a crash training program. Despite his nonchalant planning, Shevick is looking forward to a 3:15-to-3:30 race, "if I finish...
VERONA (through Aug. 17). Italy's oldest summer opera, now in its 47th year, offers Turandot, Aida and Don Carlo in an acoustically perfect Roman amphitheater. Tenors Carlo Bergonzi and Placido Domingo, Sopranos Birgit Nilsson and Montserrat Caballé highlight the excellent casts...
...unless conductor, orchestra, text, music and singers all work together to produce one whole art. Italians, on the other hand, are partial to individualistic vocalism that is sensually beautiful as well as expressive. This record leans toward the Italian style. Renata Tebaldi, Robert Merrill, Marilyn Home and Carlo Bergonzi are all equipped with voluptuous voices singing this perennial "singers' opera," complete with massive arias and roof-hitting dramatics. Tebaldi, the star of them all, has compensated for the loss of the famous velvet in her voice by inserting pulsating hysteria. Sometimes the effect works, sometimes not. Conductor Lamberto Gardelli...
...with steam. But mostly the singers forgot about the drama and one another, turned toward the audience, and simply belted out their best. Frequently it was more than good enough. Drenched by the robust melodiousness of Soprano Elena Suliotis and Basso Nicolai Ghiaurov in Nabucco, and of Tenor Carlo Bergonzi and Mezzo Soprano Fiorenza Cossotto in Trovatore, the Montreal audiences hardly seemed to notice anything missing elsewhere...