Word: donizetti
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...another Menotti opera, The Saint of Bleecker Street (TIME, Jan. 10). Last week Kalamazoo-born Conductor Schippers, 24, won his golden operatic spurs: the Metropolitan Opera signed him to be the third U.S.-born regular conductor in its 71-year history.* He will bow in a new production of Donizetti's Don Pasquale next season, will add much-needed verve to the Met's stable of good but greying and overworked conductors...
...Donizetti: Elixir of Love (Margherita Carosio, Nicola Monti, Tito Gobbi; Rome Opera chorus and orchestra conducted by Gabriele Santini; Victor, 2 LPs). A 123-year-old take-off on the Tristan legend involving a desirable and wealthy wench, her two swains, a phony love potion and a welter of sunny tunes (including Una furtiva lagrima). A painless score, handsomely performed...
Adventurous Programming. The album's ten sections, arranged and conducted by Richard Bales, of the Washington, D.C. National Gallery Orchestra, underscores different facets of the war. First is General Lee's Grand March, a frothy two-step that might have come from Donizetti's Daughter of the Regiment. Next come wistful and militant soldiers' songs, e.g., Bonnie Blue Flag and Somebody's Darling. Others are drenched with sentiment; still others suggest the progressive bitterness of the occupation...
...play, Lucrezia Borgia, in which Lucrezia poisons a roomful of banqueters only to discover that her lovechild, Gennaro, is among them. Unappreciatively, Gennaro stabs her, to the accompaniment of Latin plain chant, as monks arrive with coffins for all. This imaginary incident made such a good spectacle that Donizetti wrote an opera around it. *The Florentine Ambassador Machiavelli met Cesare in the course of diplomatic business, was so taken with Cesare's forthright approach that he used him as an exemplar of the successful ruler in the famed treatise, The Prince...
...Donizetti: Don Pasquale (Lina Aymaro, Melchiore Luise, Scipio Colombo Juan Oncina; Vienna Chamber Chorus and State Opera Orchestra conducted by Argeo Quadri; Westminster, 2 LPs). This was Donizetti's 63rd opera, and it is a charmer with a quenchless flow of melody and fun involving the usual opéra bouffe case of mistaken identity. Beautifully sung and played, and resonantly recorded...