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...sopranos, then sat back and urged her sister to sing something from Call Me Madam. Lee now recalls that Jackie played a similar trick on her a decade later. During a 1963 trip to Morocco, while Lee and First Lady Jackie Kennedy were waiting with the King's harem to meet the monarch, Jackie boasted about her sister's lovely singing voice, then forced her to sing In an Old Dutch Garden. Ah, pre-Camelot revisited...
Most people either had no preference or asked to live in a coed dorm. Some men, perhaps in an effort to materialize dreams of playing shiek to a surrounding harem, requested to live in all female entries. Tough luck, buddy...
...with Mozart that was especially beneficial to some of his younger singers-notably Dutch-born Sonja Foot as Constanze and Montreal's Anna Chornodolska as the maid Blonde. Bass Joseph Rouleau, a regular at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, was lecher-perfect as the Pasha's harem keeper, Osmin. The star of the evening, though, was the five-year-old National Arts Centre Orchestra, a chamber-sized ensemble of 46 that Bernardi conducts in concert during the winter...
...added attraction to newcomers, the libretto is translated from the German into English, so the weak plot can at least be understood. A rescue from a heathen harem may not be improbable, but the ending of the story is. The clever translation tightens the dialogue, and fits the comic intentions of the author. ("He is but an honest simple soul"/"His head belongs upon the pole...
...Abduction from the Seragllo is probably the first of Mozart's operas that you're likely to love at first acquaintance. It has a rather joyfully ridiculous plot about a talking pasha and his harem and a ferocious servant and a comical Englishwoman and so on, and some remarkable music, and a number of Harvard people are singing in this production, besides. A new translation and full orchestra. Tonight, February 23, and Saturday, March 2, 8 p.m. at the Peabody School Auditorium on Linnean Street...