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...solo recital tour that ended last week in Manhattan with a masterly program of Schubert songs set to Goethe texts. Prey has lost nothing of his fabled way with the German art song, whether communicating the unearthly calm of Meeres Stille, the wild terror of the Erlkönig, the heroic defiance of Prometheus or the soft tenderness of Versunken. And certainly not the opera audiences of San Francisco, which last month heard him sing his greatest role, Mozart's Figaro, in a musically radiant (though poorly lighted and directed) new production...
...hitting his stride. Muller appears in all three museum shows. His Of This Time, Of That Place (opposite) at the Whitney is a large-scale (4 ft. by 8 ft.) canvas with looming white nudes set against a luxuriant patchwork landscape that draws its theme from Goethe's Erlk...
...bloom is gone from her voice, but it has moments of velvety smoothness, and its tone quality is even from bottom to top. Diva Ponselle still has a masterly command of expression that warms up even the oldest chestnuts. Among her selections: Schubert's Erlkönig, Brahms's Von ewiger Liebe, Sadero's Amuri, amuri...
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