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Collins remarked to reporters that Roberts "doesn't have to commit hara- kiri now" but allowed that he could probably make do with some "psychiatric treatment." Even though the gift met the divinely ordained total that Roberts had announced, he continued his fast in the Prayer Tower and asked his flock for more cash. Roberts' performance caused Swaggart to lament, "The gospel of Jesus Christ has never sunk to such a level...
Cast president Nick Weir as country singer Willie Everstop and Jon Blackstone as soprano Kiri On-Luggage (whose costume is a show-stopper) are a delightful pair of misfit lovers whose voices carry them through the show's strongest duet...
...spacious La Boheme from 1981-82 and his Tosca, for which Rome was rebuilt, two seasons ago -- also have marooned their casts in movie sets. Presto: singing pygmies. Now comes this extravagant Fledermaus with singers who become a backup chorus to the brocade and the woodwork. Rosalinde (Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa) gets lost in the crowd during Orlofsky's drinking party in Act II, and the vengeful Dr. Falke (Baritone Michael Devlin) blends nicely with the patterned wallpaper and the potted ferns...
...MOST SUCCESSFUL MARRIAGE That of Giacomo Puccini and Kiri Te Kanawa; his music and her voice gave A Room with a View the year's loveliest sound track...
...Battle is said to live up to her last name. By reputation she is a temperamental prima donna who can be cold or even hostile to colleagues, a master of the brisk nod or, worse, the blank stare. Backstage, Met staffers are still talking about her dustup with Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa during the production of Strauss's Arabella. Battle, it seems, wanted some cuts in the music restored, at which Te Kanawa balked. Heated words were exchanged. Battle claims to be mystified by her fearsome reputation. Says she: "I can't think of an instance that I voiced...