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...England. Indeed, that may well be the case these days. She is in the midst of performing a trilogy by Donizetti that began last season when she sang Elizabeth I in Roberto Devereux, and will be rounded off next year when she sings Elizabeth's mother in Anna Bolena. The whole project, as City Opera Director Julius Rudel says, amounts to a sort of Elizabethan Ring...
GLYNDEBOURNE FESTIVAL (May 3-Aug. 4) combines snob appeal with top-notch opera. New productions of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail spell Cavalli's L'Ormindo and Donizetti's Anna Bolena...
...blessing, is complete. I have contributed to the history of music. I have taken music that has long been dead and buried and have brought it back to life again. If the time comes when my dear friend Renata Tebaldi will sing, among others, Norma or Lucia or Anna Bolena one night, then La Traviata or Gioconda or Medea the next-then, and only then, will we be rivals. Otherwise it is like comparing champagne with cognac. No-champagne with Coca-Cola...
...Callas appeared in a black lace sheath and a blazing diamond necklace. She sang the final aria from Donizetti's Anna Bolena, in which the wronged queen, about to be beheaded, forgives all her enemies. At the last exultant phrase ("Only my blood is lacking to finish the crime, and this will be shed!"), Callas took a single step forward-so dramatic that people all but jumped. She raised a commanding hand over her head, then threw her arms wide and sent that last full note straight up through the roof...
...Arnold U. Gamson, "you're highbrow, aren't you?" Patiently Gamson explained what the passage was about, finally told them: "It's like the music for a striptease." That did it. The violins became silky, the horns impassioned, and everyone proceeded with the rehearsal of Anna Bolena, one of Gaetano Donizetti's rarely played masterpieces...