Word: lecouvreur
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...charts for three years, selling an unheard of 8.1 million copies. On Sept. 27, onstage at New York City's Metropolitan Opera, Pavarotti and Domingo will meet again: for a gala opening night, celebrating their common 25th anniversary at the Met. (In 1968 Domingo made his debut in Adriana Lecouvreur, Pavarotti in La Boheme.) The Met's jubilee sounds like an inspired negotiation. Domingo, who lately has been turning to the German repertory, will lead off singing the first act of Die Walkure. Then comes Pavarotti in the first act of Otello, new for him, though it is Domingo...
...style. For all its harmonic piquancies and orchestral sleight of hand, the score of Francesca sounds derivative-a touch of Puccini, a sprinkle of Debussy, a pinch of Wagner. Further, it lacks a single memorable melody, the essential ingredient that keeps a relic like Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur on the boards. Its plot, however, is operatic gold. Based on a play by Gabriele d'Annunzio, it recounts an episode from Dante's Inferno. Francesca (Soprano Renata Scotto) is tricked into marrying the deformed Gianciotto (Baritone Cornell MacNeil) when his handsome brother Paolo (Tenor Placido Domingo) comes...
...After the Met season ended, I was in a very small opera company in the Beacon theatre in New York which did Adriana Lecouvreur by Cilea. It was their first production and it showed. In the ball scene, the ballet dancer was supposed to float in on a platform through the smoke and dance around very ethereally. But they started the dry ice too early, so in the middle of the scene before, smoke started coming up from under the setting and flooding the stage. It was very pathetic. The company has not been heard from since...
...music world as well. Conductor Herbert von Karajan saved rehearsal time for last year's Salzburg Festival production of Die Walküre by having the singers study cassettes made from his earlier recording of the opera. Mezzo-Soprano Regina Resnik taped a recording of Adriana Lecouvreur on her cassette and is now using it to learn the role she will sing next season...
...When she returned to the Metropolitan Opera last week after an absence of a year, she decided that having refurbished her form, she would also refurbish an old -to Met audiences-unfamiliar role. She insisted on singing the title part in Francesco Cilèa's Adriana Lecouvreur, an opera that had been performed at the Met just twice, a half-century...