Word: domingo
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...York stage for more than a century, the opera was revived especially for Sills by the company's director, Julius Rudel. He conducted it adoringly and surrounded his prima diva with an all-star cast headed by Mezzo Beverly Wolff, Baritone Louis Quilico and, of course, Domingo. Amply returning the favor, Sills proved again that she is unsurpassed as a coloratura. With gestures ranging from near-hysteric twitching to imperious slaps, she brought the Virgin Queen's tragedy to dramatic life. More important, she turned Donizetti's ornate vocal scrolls into ear-ravishing laments of the utmost...
...welcome exception is Tenor Placido Domingo, who not only looks at his heroines but seems to like them as well. Tall, dark and Teddy-bear handsome, Domingo at 29 is virile evidence that believability and passion are not necessarily inconsistent with operatic love. He has the sweetest and one of the biggest lyric-dramatic tenor voices on the operatic stage, and he phrases his serenades with a taste and elegance unmatched since the days of Jussi Bjorling. As an actor, he is manly, confident and capable of the kind of tender gestures that can thrill girls on both sides...
Manhattan's Lincoln Center. On Tuesday at the Metropolitan Opera, Domingo portrayed King Gustav III of Sweden who tries to woo Montserrat Caballe away from her husband in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera. On Thursday, across the plaza at the New York City Opera, where Domingo broke into the big time four years ago, he played the Earl of Essex to Beverly Sills' Queen Elizabeth in a splendid new production of Donizetti's Roberto Devereux. Like any operatic tenor, Domingo does a lot of theatrical dying. "When you are dying," he says with a wink...
Singing opposite Sills, many tenors sound pale and superfluous. But Sills and Domingo made an Elizabeth...
...concentrating on showcase projects instead of attacking basic problems such as poverty, educational shortcomings and land reform. In reply, Balaguer pointed to his record since his election in 1966, after the U.S. intervention. "Everything I promised has been accomplished," he said, "with the exception of museums in Santo Domingo and Santiago de los Caballeros." To win voters' loyalty, Balaguer hands out gifts at every campaign stop: new shoes, bolts of cloth, caps and 5-and 1-peso notes. It was an old-fashioned campaign typical of the man-a stodgy bachelor who neither smokes nor drinks...