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...opera house caters to Italian opera more lavishly than New York's Metropolitan. But probably no one except Rudolf Bing could have dared, as Bing did last week, to open a big new Met season with a work like Ernani, one of Verdi's least mature operas. As a tale of romance and intrigue among 16th century grandees, Ernani mostly creaks where it should crackle. As music, it is an example of early Verdi that too often comes out merely as early oompah-pah. That Bing succeeded at all merely proves his mastery of his craft...
...great Verdi, Ernani does at least offer signs and portents of greatness to come. Its orchestral writing heralds the style of Don Carlo and Aida. It contains a healthy portion of the soaring vocal writing that was made to order for the all-star cast that Bing assembled for the occasion. As Carlo-better known to history as the Emperor Charles V-Sherrill Milnes affirmed his pre-eminent position among American baritones, singing with truly empyreal grace and a voice that opened on many intriguing corridors of power. In a spectacular Met debut in the role of the aging Silva...
...time of the ancient Romans-is that arthritis sufferers lack sufficient copper in their systems; thus users of the bracelets are somehow supposed to compensate for the deficiency. Golfer Bert Yancey credits his copper bracelet with easing an aching elbow in time for him to win the $25,000 Bing Crosby Open at Pebble Beach last January. Hollywood Producer Dick Brown feels that the bracelet "has definitely helped" his bad back. His wife, Eva Gabor, also is a believer. Actor John Forsythe, a tennis nut, says that his tennis elbow was cured by the bracelet. "I know some people...
...touching his fingertips incredulously to the trembling walls. "Feel it," he said. At the end, when the group was booed for refusing to play an encore, Tommy's Composer Peter Townshend put the audience down emphatically by filling the historic hall with a distinctly nonoperatic four-letter word. Bing was more restrained. "I didn't understand a thing about Tommy myself," he said, "but then I don't understand everything about Don Giovanni either...
Perhaps the album's most startling moment is hearing the prophet who once sang Masters of War and The Times They Are AChangin' now croon his way like Bing Crosby into a classic from the 1930s...