Word: duets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Schwartz didn't think he could make the unadorned illusion stick he should have watched his Figaro. Croog at once completely unbelievable and completely right. Even staring out at the audience with opera glasses a love duet he remained in character...
...Sutherland, "is so exciting for us. It's fantastic." The audience agreed. Sutherland as Queen Semiramide was her usual dazzling self, but Horne matched her roulade for roulade, trill for trill, most enchantingly in the final act in which the two coloraturas melded voices in a breathtakingly lovely duet. Marilyn exhibited a regal voice that spans two octaves, warm and bronze-toned in the middle, vibrantly brilliant at the top. With the diction of a newscaster, she breezed through the complicated Rossini libretto as easily as a mother singing a nursery rhyme...
WAGNER: KUNDRY-PARSIFAL DUET (RCA Victor). Among all her recordings, this 25-year-old reissue was Kirsten Flagstad's favorite. Lauritz Melchior is her Parsifal, awakened to his holy search by her kiss and, one would think, by her voice...
Cellist Charlotte Moorman, who had a concert to herself earlier in the festival in which she played a duet with a mechanized robot equipped with twirling foam-rubber breasts, is told at 36 minutes to "play and sing for four minutes." She can perform anything she likes, so one night she played a Boccherini piece, another night Bach. At 15 minutes, during "a long pause," she is free to do whatever she wants and made dark plans to give Poet Ginsberg a much needed shave, "if he does not resist too much...
...they were, the lyrics were often changed. In all cases, Bagley has revived the originals. One song from 1939's DuBarry Was a Lady, for example, illustrates just what sort of lady DuBarry was. Called But in the Morning, No, it is a seduction duet in which a man and woman practically stage an exhibition as they woo in questionable metaphor...