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Against Boston-area clubs, Brown lost to B.C. 4-1, and came from behind to score a 4-3 upset over B.U. They led B.C. 1-0 after two periods and lost only when, the fast and strong Eagles outlasted them in the final canto...
Poppea was the first opera to deal primarily with human rather than mythological character and psychology, set the stage for the bel canto style. But beside Monteverdi's hopped-up humans, his gods look like so many bank clerks. Poppea's action centers on the infatuation of the Roman Emperor Nero with his mistress, Poppea, an affair held in dubious check by Nero's Stoic mentor Seneca. Poppea, slinkily played in Dallas by Patrice Munsel in a white gown slit to the hip, finally turns Nero's golden-curled head, and he orders Seneca to commit...
...years after its debut in 1823 Semiramide was considered Rossini's crowning triumph. Written at fever pitch in just 33 days, it shines with bel canto flourishes-fluid melodies, runs, cadenzas, arpeggios-and a soprano role that is one of the most difficult in all opera. "Semiramide," says La Scala's artistic director. "is Norma's grandmother." Much of the dramatic singing is in the most difficult vocal range, and the coloratura passages are burdened with drama. With the coloratura parts too dramatic and the dramatic parts too coloratura, it is simply too difficult; Paris...
That early training, Tucker feels, helped him to catch on at the Met, mastering 25 major roles as he developed from a lyric tenor to a lirico spinto (midway between lyric and dramatic). He is not identified with any single role, but ranging between the romantic bel canto flights of Lucia di Lammermoor and the more declamatory style of Turandot or La Fanciulla del West, he has created some memorable characterizations: Don Jose in Carmen, Rodolfo in La Boheme, the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto...
...votes needed for necessary domestic reforms (TIME, Feb. 9). But many left-wingers predict gloomily that Nenni will become a hostage of the right, while conservatives fear that Fanfani will become a hostage of the left. Rome's coffeehouse commentators accurately described the Fanfani-Nenni coalition as a canto connubio-a cautious marriage...