Word: carmens
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Verrett's gypsy go-go girl was proud, alluring, pantherlike, intelligent and vocally velvet. Right at the start, in the opening Habanera, she rejected the tradition that makes Carmen a menacing femme fatale. "The music of the Habanera is not heavy," she says. "It is elegant, light, playful, seductive. If Carmen is nasty all the time, who needs that kind of woman, really?" Instead, Verrett was childish, beautiful, desirable -the kind of woman other women like despite her sexual superiority. "Then when she gets angry at Don José in the third act, it's a different character...
...licensed real estate agent in Los Angeles 15 years ago, Shirley Verrett was pretty good at selling houses. Today, she is even better at selling them out. Mezzo-Soprano Verrett last week made her Metropolitan Opera debut as the heroine in Bizet's Carmen. Be fore the night was out, she had men smiling to themselves and women wondering how a flower might look in their teeth...
...program is a shrewd sampling of nine works from his recent recitals, including the noble pathos of Chopin's Polonaise in F-Sharp Minor, the lapidary classicism of two Scarlatti sonatas, and the flashy fireworks of his own Variations on a Gypsy Song from Bizet's "Carmen...
...peer at Bonnard's radiant Après le Déjeuner in the foyer. The house is not an embassy or museum, but neither is it an ordinary home. It is the new, luxurious, $1.5 million-plus home of David Lloyd Kreeger, 59, and his wife Carmen, who built it as a sort of shrine...
...moment, the only room in the house without paintings is the master bedroom. Carmen Kreeger has banned all art there so that when visitors come, there will be no excuse to invade their hosts' privacy. Civic groups and philanthropic organizations are already badgering the Kreegers with requests to send groups to view the collection. In time, says Kreeger, he may well make both house and collection into a museum. But for the time being, the Kreegers would like to keep it mainly for themselves and their friends...