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...woman who is one of the leading pop stylists of the decade is now learning Bach arias for future records: "I can share with the audience the way I feel through Bach as well as pop." Flack cautions tartly, "You better not be surprised if you hear me do Manon Lescaut some...
...decent but unspectacular, notable mostly for her sweet laments in Douglas Moore's The Ballad of Baby Doe. She achieved her major reputation with a blinding display of Baroque wizardry 8% years ago in Handel's Julius Caesar. Subsequent years brought triumphs in Massenet's Manon; Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and trilogy of queens, Roberto Devereux, Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena; and more recently, Bellini's / Puritani. Vocal fireworks are Sills' glory. She has a light, lyric coloratura so clear and swift that it seems phosphorescent. Though she is the best Manon around...
...Diego, Houston and Washington, D.C. Each season, the Gramma Fisher Foundation * in Marshalltown, Iowa, contributes $100,000 for a new operatic production that is mounted by one of the companies, then made available in succeeding years to the others. St. Paul, for example, currently has a very stylish Manon that was introduced earlier this year in Houston. The plan is a sensible, sane method of cutting the staggering costs of opera today, and it is fortunately catching on elsewhere...
Across Lincoln Center at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, an evening of sheer visceral joy was conjured up by Britain's Royal Ballet. The chief magician was Rudolf Nureyev, the company's conspicuous permanent guest artist. Following Kenneth MacMillan's disappointing Manon, which inaugurated the Royal's five-week New York-Washington, D.C. season, Nureyev scored a double success. He danced an impressive debut in the comic ballet La Fille Mal Gardée. On the other half of the program was a scene from La Bayardère, the "white ballet" he restaged...
...sooner had the Royal Ballet's prima ballerina Antoinette Sibley, 34, been given the plum of her career-a three-act version of Manon created especially for her by Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan-than she fell sick. A victim of frequent illness during her 18-year career, including tuberculosis and glandular fever, Sibley could not even start rehearsals last year because of an inflamed hip. Medication put her back on pointe, but she promptly irritated a nerve in her leg. Offstage again, she got the flu. When she finally opened in Manon last March in London, her personal triumph seemed...