Word: figaro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...standards of French opera. The arias of opera seria had traditionally been set pieces; Mozart often led the music directly into the next bit of action, joining the seams, as it were, of a work that features at least two arias as memorable as those in The Marriage of Figaro...
...Bach Society Orchestra conducted by Kip Wilkins '78 features Richard Kogan '77 playing Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto. Concert also includes Mozart's Overture to the Marriage of Figaro and Bartok's Divertimento for Strings. Pre-concert prelude (8 pm) will consist of music for two brass choirs by Gabrieli. Sanders Theater...
CARDIN raised hemlines and eyebrows with his short "nymphette line" -which Le Figaro termed "adorable" and L'Aurore dismissed as "a style for perennial Lolitas." Less noticed were Cardin's romantically tailored capes, blouses and suit jackets, some with sleeves cut so wide that they afforded tantalizing glimpses of the bosom each time the wearer gestured, or breastured...
...knees. The worst of it is, nobody knows whether any other European country, West Germany included, might not have done the same." Even pro-government French newspapers condemned Abu Daoud's release. "When acts so cruelly belie words, we are no longer in the political realm," said Le Figaro...
...because it is not large she shies away from the heavy Verdi and Puccini, not to mention Wagner. She may be ready for some of that music in five to ten years, although she herself doubts it. For now it is enough that she sings Mozart (Cherubino in Figaro, Dorabella in Cost fan Tutte) with exquisite taste, control and sheen. Or that she can blend the impetuous and the spiritual so deftly as Nina in Thomas Pasatieri's The Seagull, or the childlike and the vulnerable so magically as the heroine of Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande. Starring...