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...that he became one of the four alltime opera masters, alongside Verdi, Wagner and Mozart. Though some critics dismiss him as sugary and sentimental, no opera house can hope to stay in business long without including in its repertory the three major monuments to Puccini's career-La Bohème, Tosca, Madame Butterfly. Puccini himself once made a list of the houses where his operas were playing; Tosca alone was then being given in 73 cities. His works steadily draw both dedicated opera buffs and occasional fans who might not recognize another note of opera but cherish every...
...coaxes surprisingly sensuous sonorities out of his pedal harpsichord. His album achieves a fusion of styles that he refuses to label either jazz or classical. In I Could Have Danced All Night, for instance, he starts with a theme from Rodolfo's aria, Che gelida manina from La Bohème, develops the second chorus as a Mozart sonatina, cuts loose briefly with a sample of stride harpsichord, returns to Bohème in the coda. The album should send hi-fi bugs skittering, but no sound on it is as fascinating as the musical imagination that puts them...
...this season, he sang well, was no more notable for oaken attitudes than many other performers in an art form that pays little heed to Stanislavsky. While the Met, with Robert Merrill and Warren, has enough starring baritones, Sereni will be useful in such important feature roles as Marcello (Bohème) and Silvio (Pagliacci...
...buoy him up for the rest of his schedule, the affable monarch returned to Manhattan for a reunion with his daughters, a jaunt up to West Point (where as chief of a state he granted a traditional amnesty to all cadets undergoing punishments), an evening at the Metropolitan Opera (Bohème), plus an invitation to tea with Eleanor Roosevelt and a good prospect of being awfully tired all over again before he gets back to sunny Morocco...
...Fair Lady workshop singers (some have joined from other musical casts) have had no operatic training, but some hope for careers in opera. The Musetta in last week's Bohème rehearsal, Lola Fisher, was Julie Andrews' able understudy as Eliza Doolittle, and Mimi was Evelyn Aring, who sings on the Firestone Hour...