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...Maria Lydia Vasquez, 30, had no more tears left to cry. Her eyes dry and red, & she watched silently as the bloody body of one of her two slain brothers was lifted from a cattle truck and lowered into a bare coffin resting on sawhorses in the street. A few miles up the dirt road, graves were being dug for the two brothers and 17 other villagers killed last week when 100 to 200 leftist insurgents raided the tiny hamlet of Santa Cruz Loma, 33 miles southeast of San Salvador, the capital. Among the dead were six members...
Pinch-hitter Kristen Abely walked, but was erased on the ensuing play. Hanya Bluestone, who had replaced Paul in center, lofted a fly to right, which was dropped by the MIT fielder, Maria Koslowski...
...never, it is safe to say, has it been cast as it has been in this version: Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa and Tenor Jose Carreras are Maria and Tony, the doomed lovers from rival gangs; Mezzo Tatiana Troyanos is Maria's friend Anita, who feels that life is all right in America; peerless Mezzo Marilyn Horne makes a cameo appearance singing the gentle ballad Somewhere; and, surprisingly, Bernstein conducts his full score for the first time. Far from being a vanity production with a group of slumming opera stars, however, the performance is convincing and vital...
Most impressive is Carreras, a stylish singer whose suave voice is often heard to better advantage on recordings than in large opera houses. Suppressing his Hispanic accent gamely, if intermittently, to play the American Tony, Carreras lovingly spins out his phrases, making an impassioned romantic aria out of Maria and lending Puccinian fervor to the love duet One Hand, One Heart. Te Kanawa's pure, gleaming voice and British inflection seem a bit too uptown for a Puerto Rican girl from New York City's tough West Side, but she floats a golden high pianissimo at the end of Tonight...
...Maria, 49, an engineer, leaning against a park bench: "I didn't know Chernenko was this ill. I thought he had asthma or something. I live in a four-room apartment with my husband. We have a dacha and a government car, so I have nothing to complain of about Chernenko. I look forward to a quiet pension with no stresses...