Word: legato
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...this era it seems a waste for Luciano Pavarotti to undertake such a vehicle, as he did last week at New York City's Metropolitan Opera. The commanding tenor today, he can do a great many things wonderfully well. Some of them, like spinning out a legato line or singing a high C, are displayed in La Favorita. As an actor Pavarotti can be funny or tragic (both in La Bohème), or a careless aristocrat (the Duke in Rigoletto). But with his native wit and musical intelligence, Pavarotti cannot act dumb. Unfortunately, that is required of Fernando, the hero...
...repertory of major companies. Often the production is not much more than a vehicle for a soprano. But the Met also offers a stirring male trio: Pavarotti, Milnes and James Morris, 29, whom the company has brought along carefully. Though Mimes' baritone is too dramatic for a legato line, his declamations are thrilling. Pavarotti, a money tenor in the way that Tom Seaver is a money pitcher, revels in his recklessly high flourishes. Sutherland fits into this bravura company, partly because she never tries to outshine her colleagues. A languid, settled presence onstage, she has been called in Italy...
...performing musician is quite as inflated as the virtuoso trumpeter. Preparing for a good high staccato blast or a long, breath-defying legato lament, the trumpeter can puff himself up so much that the air pressure inside him may exceed that of an average automobile tire (24 lbs. per sq. in.). No other wind player can make that statement. No other musician can literally become so dizzy so easily. No other has such a constant fight between muscular tension and interpretive relaxation and grace...
Telemann's Sonata in D had a touchingly tender singing legato line. Tartini's Trumpet Concerto in D built to a concluding D above double C that had the audience cheering Andre as though he were Sutherland...
...Nebrada's Percussion for Six-Men seemed a trifle restrained, perhaps because this abstract exercise in display of technique called upon the dancers to go about their leaping trickery with more than a touch too much of preening narcissism. A case in point: one soloist performs a legato variation delicately poised on tippytoe. The display might have been aesthetically more attractive had he been a girl, or had the performance taken place at the Continental Baths...