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...Vienna premiere of Benjamin Britten's opera A Midsummer Night's Dream in the city's renowned Staatsoper, the Austrian government bestowed its highest musical tribute on the Connecticut-born beauty singing the leading role of Titania. She was Soprano Teresa Stich-Randall, 34, who for the past ten years has made Vienna home base and last year took her first bows at the Met. Her new title: Kammersängerin (chamber singer), the first time an American-born artist has ever received the award...
...televised globe-side chats: his Macmillan is a semi-paralyzed, desperately senile ass who bleats bromides in a faltering Edwardian drawl. Moore is a most accomplished musician, and he has composed several most accomplished parodies of lieder by Schubert (this one called "Eine Flabbergast"), songs by Faure and Benjamin Britten and a piano sonata by Beethoven...
...want the audience to hear opera rather than see Miss X." Glyndebourne still is heaviest on Mozart (Marriage of Figaro has been done a record 114 times), but the house has also presented a good share of the Italian repertory plus the premieres of such contemporary works as Benjamin Britten's Albert Herring and Rape of Lucretia and the first English productions of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress and Hans Werner Henze's Elegy for Young Lovers. The country opera gets along on box office and private contributions. Says Christie: "We would not take...
...settles for less in small towns, where it wants to spread the baroque gospel. (The biggest money is in Germany, the least in the U.S., where travel costs are higher.) Although I Musici's repertory includes "more modern music than our audiences like to think we know" (Barber, Britten, Bartok), attendance falls if the orchestra plays too many contemporary compositions-or even too much Mozart. For better or worse, the orchestra has discovered, nothing sells quite so well as "the madness of Vivaldi...
...modern carols of Benjamin Britten have now been recorded by London (London 5634, or Stereo OS 2527) by the boy Choristers of Canterbury Cathedral, under the direction of Dr. Sidney Campbell. Personally, we are suckers for the voices of boy sopranos, and when, as here, they are echoed and enchanced by the vastness of Canterbury, they can sing with great purity...