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GIRL FRIENDS AND NABORS (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Jim Nabors hosts Debbie Reynolds, Vikki Carr, Carol Burnett and Metropolitan Opera Soprano Mary Costa in a variety of tunes ranging from Row, Row, Row Your Boat to the waltz from Gounod's Roméo et Juliette...
Both companies held back on real novelty until later in the week, and here the New York City Opera moved decidedly ahead. In an attempt to give French opera more of a play, the Met revived and refurbished Charles Gounod's hopelessly languid Romeo et Juliette-an opera that only illustrates the composer's remarkable capacity for turning great poetry into sentimental salon entertainment. Furthermore, the performance was sadly deficient in the French accent, both in words and music. Franco Corelli nearly strangled on every attempt to produce the pure Gallic B-flat, while all of Soprano Mirella...
...starkly modern works of Nono, Berg and Stravinsky. Now the hottest new property on the opera circuit, she is scheduled to perform some seven roles in the U.S. over the next four months. This week she will make her debut with the Metropolitan Opera as Marguerite in Gounod's Faust...
Last week, in his debut with the Metropolitan Opera, singing the role of Mephistopheles in Gounod's Faust, he proved...
...speaking world his works are very little read. The Goethe of transatlantic reputation is the plaster Zeus of Weimar who thundered at secretaries and toadied to princes ("Blessed are those who draw near to the great of this world!"). Of his works, only Faust is famous, largely because Charles Gounod made grand opera of it, and only a few of his finest lyrics have survived the assaults of 19th century translation...