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...spiritual so deftly as Nina in Thomas Pasatieri's The Seagull, or the childlike and the vulnerable so magically as the heroine of Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande. Starring in Rossini's La Cenerentola with La Scala in Washington, D.C., last September, she displayed enough bravura vocal fireworks to suggest that Flicka also has a bit of the hellcat...
...right, that is his fault and joy too. Such was the case last week as Karajan brought off a bravura musical marathon in New York's Carnegie Hall. In four successive days he unraveled the musical and spiritual mysteries of Brahms' A German Requiem, the Beethoven Ninth Symphony, a double bill of the Mozart Requiem and Bruckner Te Deum and the Verdi Requiem Mass. Each of these is a work of immense proportions requiring time and money as well as skill to prepare. The average orchestra in the U.S. will usually do one such score a year...
...talking. He talks so nice. Not too bitter, not too sweet. A mixture of blarney and bravura. Hell's Kitchen boy, you know...
Cenerentola is less popular than Rossini's The Barber of Seville, probably because of its emphasis on bravura ensemble work over traditional solo arias. Further, the title role is written for an almost extinct species, the coloratura contralto. La Scala has such a rara avis in Lucia Valentini Terrani. She really has too hefty a look for an ideal Cinderella, but her voice was lusciously bronze and agile. The production is by France's Jean-Pierre Ponnelle; within a delightful children's cutout house, he manipulates his characters like a swinging Coppelius. How, for example, Soprano Margherita...
...when their annual spring performances of Sleeping Beauty showed more unpointed toes and bent knees than solid lines. Nor was the traditional everything it might have been when the Panovs visited the Music Hall last week with the Eglevsky Ballet. The famous Russian pair did have the balance and bravura we've come to expect of all superstars but their noticible uneasiness on stage was a reminder that these two had gone without a rehearsal for a long time while still in the U.S.S.R. The ballet performed by Joanne Hochberg, Lois Rosenberg, and Francine Figie...