Word: cantos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have no part of this crime." --Pablo Neruda, Canto General...
...Ezra Pound, Canto...
...gently signaled a lyrical passage with a crook of the finger and a nod of the head. A percussive, firmly beating section found him tapping a foot and doing shallow knee bends. Whatever his body language, the playing and singing were exhilarating in their bel canto mood and color, and the standing ovation of the audience was almost anticlimactic. As Sills put it: "He's going to be one of our great American artists...
...Stupenda really got on with it a few nights later as the star of opening night's new production of Bellini's bel canto classic Norma. Though Sutherland did not warm up until after her cruel Act I setpiece Casta Diva, she has rarely sung as passionately or been so actively involved in the dramatic proceedings. Under Tito Capobianco's ingenious direction, Sutherland clearly dramatized the two sides of Norma's often enigmatic personality-severe and stately as the imperious high priestess of the Druids, yielding, even frantic as a woman in love with, and ready...
...canto opera puts everyone to the test, including the audience. Norma, for example, is one of those static abstracts that-like most neo-Roman architecture-more often command respect than love. That Sutherland, Capobianco and Designer José Verona could infuse it with any passion at all was testimony to the peculiar alchemy of opera when it is defying both the gods and the arts...