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...rest of us know, there is a wealth of evidence to the contrary. A work like Three-penny Opera or Lucia so completely interfuses dramatic and political concerns that it would not occur to us to separate their claims on our attention. It should not surprise us to find that when a play's political tension is built upon the same internal logic that propels its dramatic development, each is made more vivid by the resonance of the other. This can only happen if the playwright's chief concern is to write something, not write about something. If the play...
...Lucia, a recent full-length Cuban political film, Friday and Saturday...
...unmatched musical and theatrical skills. But it helps that what she has, she flaunts-tirelessly. This season is typical. Sills will give recitals in such cities as Syracuse, Boulder, and Birmingham, Ala. She will also appear as soloist with orchestras in Miami Beach, Houston, and Evansville, Ind., sing Lucia di Lammermoor with opera companies in Milwaukee and Omaha, star at the San Francisco Opera and visit Los Angeles with her home company, the New York City Opera...
...OPERA Company runs into occasional problems. John Davies doesn't really have the voice for Bartolo's lowest notes. Diana Hoagland more than rises to the occasion of the Countess's big third-act aria, but some of her earlier attempts at acting seem a good bit closer to Lucia's madness than Rosina's anger. Sunday night's orchestra didn't seem to approve of them, either--the strings swung briefly out of tune for the introduction to her first aria, something that didn't happen again until the whole orchestra--previously more than competent--began to fall apart...
...Today: Lucia...