Word: kiri
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Puccini: La Rondine (CBS Masterworks). Kiri Te Kanawa, Placido Domingo and Conductor Lorin Maazel star in Puccini's unaccountably neglected confectioner's delight...
...viewer is thrown al once into the sadomasochistic excess of Oriental machismo. Here, every gesture of discipline, compassion, rage and honor is expressed by the blade of a Japanese officer's sword. Firing squads shoot blanks at condemned men; Japanese soldiers are decapitated as part of the hara-kiri ceremony; Geneva conventions are defied with a twitch of the captain's jaw muscle-all as ancient rituals of purification...
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (London, 4 LPs). Matchless Mozartean Sir Georg Solti leads the London Philharmonic and a cast including Kiri Te Kanawa in a sparkling reading...
...once was a strong supporter of a separate Education Department, Bell has won White House approval for his dismantling zeal. Says a presidential aide: "He has not been captured by the bureaucracy. He's made a positive impression by being the first Cabinet member to perform institutional hara-kiri...
...whole thing "is a fairly daunting prospect. It would be wrong to say we're not feeling the old butterflies." Or about Designer Bruce Oldfield, turning out dresses for several prominent guests, who dithers: "It's a nightmare. It's great. It's fantastic." Or Kiri Te Kanawa, who says simply that she is "terrified." The frantic pace, the giddy nerves, the spiraling expectation that threatens to run away and never quite does: all of it comes down to one thing. It is an understandable preopening stage fright for what will...