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...Robert Merrill, 33, recently reinstated after a wayward detour to Hollywood, and 21-year-old Soprano Roberta Peters, who made a dramatic debut in a last-minute substitution a year and a half ago as Zerlina in Don Giovanni, announced they would marry this summer. They met while singing Figaro and Rosina in The Barber of Seville, in which Figaro tries to persuade Rosina to marry the romantic tenor, Count Almaviva. Cracked Merrill: "This time the baritone got the girl...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Marriage of Figaro, with Siepi, De los Angeles, Valdengo, Conner...
Mabry appeared in H.T.G. productions of "Figaro!," "The Trojan War Will Not Take Place," "Darkness at Noon," and last fall's production of "An Enemy of the People...
...Maid for Figaro. She turned from the girlish Gilda to the worldly Rosalinda in Fledermaus, and brought that role, until then one of the weakest in the Met's comic hit, up to par or better. As the saucy Musetta in La Bohème, she was gay in her waltz song, movingly sympathetic with the dying Mimi in the last act. Last week she sang her first Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro. Her tone, as ever, was as pure and clear as a mountain stream; her coloratura was as neat as needlepoint. A singing actress who loves...
...decade. Così has usually been more of a festival favorite than a standard repertory piece. In making a smashing new hit for itself, the Met has also clearly found a new repertory regular -to be played right along with Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro, as it deserves...