Word: fledermaus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only one in the world who can arrange this event," boasted San Diego Opera Director Tito Capobianco. Indeed, Capobianco's Die Fledermaus was an operatic double play: the first time Queen Coloraturas Beverly Sills, 51, and Joan Sutherland, 53, have appeared onstage together, and the last time Sills will appear in a full-length opera. Of course, few would have considered asking two divas to, Mozart forbid, share the same spotlight. Says Sills: "We still don't know if Tito asked Joan first and told her I had said yes, or asked me first and told...
...color scheme of the Fledermaus ball at Boston's stately Copley Plaza was black and white, but the 400 guests were blue. For the affair marked Bubbles' Beantown finale, the last Boston appearance for Soprano Beverly Sills, who had just sung Rosalinda in the Strauss opera. Sills' white dress balanced Director Sarah Caldwell's black gown, but not Caldwell's mood as she pooh-poohed the notion that Sills would be happy as non-performing director of the New York City Opera. Predicted Caldwell: "Your voice has a voice...