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Opera HANDEL: SERSE (Westminster; 3 LPs). One of the greatest boons of the expanding recorded repertoire was the debut last year on vinyl of Handel's Rodelinda; now comes his tragicomic opera Serse, or Xerxes, which begins with the famous aria Ombra mai fu, generally called Handel's Largo, a song of praise to a plane tree. The deep, dark, mellifluous voice of Alto Maureen Forrester as the Persian king is set off by the light, bright vocal acrobatics of Lucia Popp, a rising young Czech soprano. Brian Priestman is the conductor, using the Vienna Radio Orchestra...
...used to best advantage in her massive revenge aria of the first act. Eleanor Edward's Donna Elvira was not the nuisance this role can be, in its hysterical comings and goings. Her voice, slightly warmer and more focused than Roll's, seemed edgy in the "Chimi di ce mai," but relaxed in the second act for a superb "Mi tradi...
LOVING COUPLES. Another Swedish showpiece, this one contrived by Film Star turned Director Mai Zetterling. Antimarriage, antisex, anti-men, Couples is a lively closeup of three women and the ne'er-do-wells they cannot...
LOVING COUPLES. Another Swedish showpiece, this one contrived by Film Star turned Director Mai Zetterling. Antimarriage, antisex, anti-men, Couples is a long lively closeup of three young women and the ne'er-do-wells they cannot...
LOVING COUPLES. Another Swedish showpiece handsomely fashioned by Film-Star-turned-Director Mai Zetterling. Antimarriage, antisex, anti-men. Couples is a long, loving closeup of three young women who come to grief because of the vain, stupid, corrupt men they cannot...