Word: boccanegra
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...Giorgio Strehler (see box). For Strehler, it was one of three moments in the spotlight. His staging of Figaro was the first hit of the Paris Opéra's run in New York. This week La Scala will introduce his production of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra...
...music is all well and good, but what really counts is the thrill of encountering a glamorous big-name conductor-such as Paris' Sir Georg Solti (who will conduct Le Nozze di Figaro and Otello) or La Scala's dashing Claudio Abbado (Macbeth, La Cenerentola, Simon Boccanegra). Or being present when an important artist breaks through into international stardom-as, say, Paris' dulcet-voiced soprano Margaret Price (the Countess in Figaro, Desdemona in Otello) may well do this time. Before La Scala and Paris wind up their two-week stands (Paris will then follow La Scala into...
...meteoric. In 1961 he won the Metropolitan Opera Auditions, made his Met debut in Cosi Fan Tutte as a last-minute substitute for an ailing tenor, and was promptly acclaimed the find of the season. In the years since, he has sung leading roles in Madame Butterfly, Simon Boccanegra and La Traviata, next season will portray Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville. "Fifteen years ago," says Shirley, "I probably wouldn't have been accepted by the Met. Ten years ago, I couldn't sing my favorite roles. Times are changing...
Photographers in the House? But clearly the sensation of the festival was the dance mercifully called Untitled. To the taped sound of rolling stones, the reading of passages from Da Vinci's Notebooks, an aria from Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, and the choreographer's taped comments (sample: "If you are taking photographs now, let us know later"), Yvonne Rainer, 30, and Robert Morris, 34, in a tight embrace, moved across stage in slow motion for eight minutes-stark naked. "I am a sculptor and like nude bodies," explains Dance Choreographer Morris. The audience took it all with...
...television opera-and in a role that he had infrequently sung before-was about par for Tozzi. He made his Met debut only six years ago; since then, he has thrown his big bronze voice into 27 different Met roles-including King Phillip in Don Carlo, Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra, Padre Guardiano in La Forza del Destino-and in the process has become one of the world's great bassos...