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...Merola victory in 1971 gave Mitchell a niche in the San Francisco Opera's summer apprentice program and, more important, a place in the heart of the company's then general director, Kurt Herbert Adler. Two years later, Leona sang her first Micaela in Bizet's Carmen at the San Francisco Spring Opera Theater. In 1974 she also won a $10,000 Opera America grant, and used it to move to Los Angeles to begin studies with Voice Teacher Ernest St. John Metz, still her coach and mentor...
...addition to his work at the Arboretum. Lobig was a classical music announcer with the Boston radio station. WCRB, and hosted the station's Delta Opera House show on Sunday evenings. Heidi Jones, a spokesman for WCRB said yesterday. The station will dedicate its Sunday evening broadcast of Bizet's opera. The Pearl Fishers to the memory of Lobig, she added...
Bettering Bizet...
...review of Peter Brook's recent version of Georges Bizet's Carmen [Dec. 21] at the Bouffes de Nord in Paris collapses when it argues, "Would anyone think of touching up the Mona Lisa, redesigning St. Peter's, or editing Paradise Lost? These works already exist as painting, edifice and book; they are frozen in time. By its very nature, however, an opera (or play, for that matter) exists by reconstructing it anew from its blueprint. There is no aesthetic rule that says something cannot be left out or rearranged. The only valid criterion is: Does...
...words "L'amour, I 'amour. " In its total bleakness this is Carmen seen by a man familiar with Alban Berg's operas Wozzeck and Lulu, twin 20th century masterpieces of love, alienation and despair. The production also reflects Brook's distaste for conventional Bizet, which goes back to the time, 30 years ago, when he was production chief at London's Royal Opera House. "I looked with horror at how it was being presented. It had become a mausoleum." Controversy is nothing new for the flamboyant British-born director. In 1949 he produced a scandalous...