Word: ferrando
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...Resnik's Clytemnestra (in the Hamburg Elektra) is in full cry, the camera suddenly becomes fashion conscious: it stoops and meticulously inspects her hemline (floor length). In an otherwise masterful Così fan Tutte, the camera focuses mostly on a collection of ambulatory bird cages, making nonsense of Ferrando's aria, Un' aura amoroso...
Cosi Fan Tutte, a title truly impossible to translate, roughly means "Women Will Do It All the Time." And in this bubbling tale of feminine frailty, everything happens in pairs. There are two sisters, Fiordiligi and Dorabella, and their lovers, Guglielmo and Ferrando, respectively. Things get rolling when Don Alfonso, an old conniver, bets Guglielmo and Ferrando that their loves would betray them, given the chance...
John Harger Stewart, as Ferrando, has a fine bel canto tenor, which he uses to good effect. Greg Sandow, his wacky sidekicks Guglielmo, holds his own with the baritone part and caught the audience off guard with his frequent wry sallies. Thomas Weber, as Don Alfonso, was even better, in a difficult part which required him to sing while snickering at the plot all evening. Patricia Stedry, as Despina, a little out of her range perhaps, nevertheless made an excellent co-conspirator with Don Alfonso in their sotto voce duets...
...long-overdue Metropolitan debut as Fiordiligi, displayed the purity, fullness and control that have won her ardent fans in Europe and on records. In the same opera, Negro Tenor George Shirley, 27, last year's Metropolitan Opera Auditions winner, filled in on short notice in the role of Ferrando, carried off the assignment with a handsomely rounded voice and natural dramatic flair. The Met was still suffering from shaky finances, but its voices were suffering from practically nothing...
...takes place in an unidentified "city of Central Europe" where factory workers are engaged in a hopeless revolt against the oppressive power of the state. Anna, the heroine (Soprano Clara Petrella), has lost her husband in the revolt, is separated from her children and her old friend Renato (Tenor Ferrando Fegrari). Anna escapes the soldiers assigned to crush the revolt, is briefly reunited with Renato, who becomes her lover. She tries to flee with him to America, but is arrested and shot down when she attempts to escape from a police station. "Love," concludes Composer Rossellini, "is the only thing...