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...curtains parted on the second act of La Bohème: the square outside the Café Momus, in Paris' Latin Quarter. A colorful crowd, self-conscious and unconvincingly hearty as most opera-players pretending to be real people, swarmed over the stage. The poet Rodolfo strolled in happily with his sweetheart Mimi, but his painter friend Marcello was in the dumps, and sang (in Italian): "Bring me an order of poison." He had just heard the jaunty voice of his faithless Musetta, who soon flounced in, all feathers and finery...
...that she has established herself as the Met's ranking soubrette, Patrice's work is pretty well cut out for her. This season, in addition to eight Adeles in Fledermaus and three Musettas in Bohème, she will get a coveted role in the Met's new, English-language production of Mozart's Cosí Fan Tutte, as Despina the maid, who decoys her mistresses into affairs with two rich Albanians, masquerades as a quack physician, and generally moves the whole plot around...
Playing with dogged intensity in a variety of foreign accents, the actors seem at times about to burst into arias, an impression the score compounds with passages from Tosca and Bohème. The accent of heavily costumed Actress Domergue wavers between Corsica and California; yet, possibly because the setting is suitable, her overwrought style seems more fitting than it did in Where Danger Lives (TIME...
...personal manager, Victoria says she would really like just to "sit in our house in Barcelona." She has small chance. After a second Manhattan recital this month she will fly to Paris for a concert, then to London's Covent Garden to sing in Manon, La Bohème and Lohengrin, then on to La Scala...
Rudi Bing's Metropolitan Operagoers will have to wait until March to hear her in Faust, Bohème and her first Madame Butterfly...