Word: freni
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...recent morning in Terminal C at Boston's Logan Airport, Ed Freni posts himself at a ticket counter and watches a long line of passengers grow even longer. For 12 full minutes the line barely moves. There are seven ticket agents, but three are devoted to first-class flyers. Freni is growing as irritated as the customers. Later, he's down at baggage claim, watching in disbelief as arriving passengers are directed to a luggage conveyor belt that is clearly out of order. In fact, it's roped...
Pique Dame (The Queen of Spades)--performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Mirella Freni and Vladimir Atlantov at Boston Symphony Hall. Call 266-1200. Wednesday...
Each voice is as unique as a fingerprint, and the whole aural setup is not exactly fair. An artist like Freni yearns to play grand heroines like Norma or La Gioconda but must obey the dictates of her two vocal cords. Yet Birgit Nilsson could prevail over waves of punishing orchestration for hours. Her explanation: "I was a healthy girl with a healthy voice...
...could be a too-high tessitura, the range of notes where most of a part lies, or too heavy a draatic role. Especially in his later years, Herbert von Karajan was a great seducer of semiformed talent because he sought a clear, pure voice in almost any female role. Freni, offered the declamatory Turandot, and Rysanek, the taxing Salome, resisted. The maestro never called again...
...self be true. Nilsson feels that "there almost has to be another you, standing at your side, in full control." To Pavarotti, long success depends on "remaining a student all your life. Remember the first lesson you ever took and believe it." Oh, and a couple of other things. Freni recommends pasta on performance days. Rysanek warns against after-performance partying. And Nilsson decrees, at all cost, wear comfortable shoes...