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...seat capacity. Quality is high too: this season, Bellini's bel canto I Capuleti e i Montecchi with Soprano Cecilia Gasdia and Mezzo Tatiana Troyanos was an unexpected smash hit, and the Lyric's tradition of presenting operatic superstars continued with Joan Sutherland in Donizetti's Anna Bolena...
...Socially and artistically, the Houses were flourishing. In 1951, for example, Adams House put on Johan Strauss' operetta "Gypsy Baron." Students in Dunster House--known as "Funsters"--staged Donizetti's "Anna Bolena." In Eliot House, the play that year was Ben Johnson's "Every Man in His Honor." After selling out "H.M.S. Pinafore" the year before, Winthrop House put on Gilbert and Sullivan's "Yeoman of the Guard...
...that she would stay on at City Opera?as co-director with Julius Rudel, 57, her mentor and director of the company for 21 years. Last week "Good Queen Bev," as Rudel has called her since her smashing performances in Donizetti's royal trilogy (Roberto Devereux, Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena), took on the biggest and riskiest role of her career. Next July she will become the company's sole director: Rudel has decided to devote all his energies to conducting...
...Ballad of Baby Doe. She achieved her major reputation with a blinding display of Baroque wizardry 8% years ago in Handel's Julius Caesar. Subsequent years brought triumphs in Massenet's Manon; Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and trilogy of queens, Roberto Devereux, Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena; and more recently, Bellini's / Puritani. Vocal fireworks are Sills' glory. She has a light, lyric coloratura so clear and swift that it seems phosphorescent. Though she is the best Manon around, her trademark has become the revival of obscure operas of the 19th century bel canto...
...production puts Sills back into English history, where in recent years she has triumphed in the Donizetti trilogy devoted to three queens-Elizabeth I (Roberto Devereux), Maria Stuarda and Anna Bolena. I Puritani was the last opera Bellini wrote before he died in 1835 at age 33. Its graceful and ornate vocal writing actually suits Sills' light voice better than Donizetti's heavyweight scores. This is music to float jewels on. Sills' succession of bravura displays in the mad scene ("Qui la voce sua soave ") is like a string of emeralds, each deeper and more lustrous...