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Died. Nicolai Ghiaurov, 74, Bulgarian bass whose warm, rich voice and striking stage presence carried him through almost a half-century of opera stardom; of heart failure; in Modena, Italy. He debuted at New York City's Metropolitan Opera in 1965 as Mephistopheles in Gounod's Faust and went on to such signature roles as King Philip in Verdi's Don Carlo and the title role in Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov...
...great king, but it was the torrid love affair between the wise and powerful Israelite ruler and the mysterious monarch from the south that everyone remembers. Their legendary romance, celebrated in both Bible and Koran, begat epic poetry, Hollywood extravaganzas, musical works by George Frideric Handel and Charles Gounod and, according to Ethiopian tradition, an African dynasty that endured until Haile Selassie was deposed...
...great king, but it was the torrid love affair between the wise and powerful Israelite ruler and the mysterious monarch from the south that everyone remembers. Their legendary romance, celebrated in both Bible and Koran, begat epic poetry, Hollywood extravaganzas, musical works by George Frideric Handel and Charles Gounod and, according to Ethiopian tradition, an African dynasty that endured until Haile Selassie was deposed...
...overused. Like voices calling and responding to one another, they act, unlike much musical interscenic filler, to further contemplation with subtle gradations of emotion rather than the current fad of ironic comment or scene-labeling through dastardly clever epoch-hopping musical selection. Bach (played by Laura Lee'00) and Gounod (Luba Mandzy '01) trade strains here, at the same time softening and commenting upon the rough edges of Miller's emotional landscape...
...approached in the right , Faust is among the most entertaining opera in the repertury. Rooted in the French graud opera tradition, Gounod did not attempt to infuse his opera with social realism, as did both Verdi and Puccini in different ways and with equally lachrymose results. Faust is unapologetically fantastic; it is the familiar story of the scholar who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for youth and the love of Marguerite, a chaste beauty. Gounod's music is as extravagant and emotional as the story demands, but the emotion is produced through charming melodies and dazzling orchestration...