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...Britain, where the composer met his first stage success (and his only wife), three more revues are wending their way toward the West End. In the past two years, half a dozen new Kern LPs have been released; recent interpreters of his songs include Joanne Woodward, Kiri Te Kanawa and, mewling All the Things You Are, Michael Jackson. Most of the tributes, though, are lovingly appropriate. They serve less to revive Kern's music than to offer proof of its enduring vitality...
...never, it is safe to say, has it been cast as it has been in this version: Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa and Tenor Jose Carreras are Maria and Tony, the doomed lovers from rival gangs; Mezzo Tatiana Troyanos is Maria's friend Anita, who feels that life is all right in America; peerless Mezzo Marilyn Horne makes a cameo appearance singing the gentle ballad Somewhere; and, surprisingly, Bernstein conducts his full score for the first time. Far from being a vanity production with a group of slumming opera stars, however, the performance is convincing and vital...
...better advantage on recordings than in large opera houses. Suppressing his Hispanic accent gamely, if intermittently, to play the American Tony, Carreras lovingly spins out his phrases, making an impassioned romantic aria out of Maria and lending Puccinian fervor to the love duet One Hand, One Heart. Te Kanawa's pure, gleaming voice and British inflection seem a bit too uptown for a Puerto Rican girl from New York City's tough West Side, but she floats a golden high pianissimo at the end of Tonight effortlessly. Troyanos, who was born in the neighborhood where the musical...
Puccini: La Rondine (CBS Masterworks). Kiri Te Kanawa, Placido Domingo and Conductor Lorin Maazel star in Puccini's unaccountably neglected confectioner's delight...
This Saturday, as the Metropolitan Opera turns 100 years old, it is wrestling with this question as never before. The centennial celebration, to be telecast live on PBS, is an extravagant affair lasting eight hours; offering a nonstop parade of stars (Domingo, Pavarotti, Milnes, Sutherland, Nilsson, Te Kanawa, among 90 others), it seems to be a ringing affirmation of the opera-as-vocalism theory. But the Met gala is more likely a capstone than a portent, for the very nature of opera is being changed by history and technology. The Met-which began life...