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Died. Dom Aurelio Maria Escarre, 60, Catalan monk, who for 24 years as Abbot of Montserrat scrapped with the Franco regime until the government forced him into retirement three years ago; of a liver and kidney disease; in Barcelona. Dom Aurelio castigated the government for "not obeying the basic principles of Christianity," and turned Montserrat into a sanctuary, often protecting those sought by Franco's police...
...Plaza with year-old productions: the Metropolitan with its comfy,old-fashioned Traviata and the New York City Opera with Beni Montresor's fairy-tale setting of The Magic Flute. In neither case was the performance on much more than a ho-hum level; in fact, Spanish Soprano Montserrat Caballe's first Met Violetta seemed an almost deliberate throwback to the bad old days when singers were meant to be heard but not seen...
...Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini, and demonstrated that bel canto embellishments could be used to impart new and exciting interpretations to a role. She has since been followed by Sutherland, and in the past few years virtually every major young singer to appear, including Teresa Berganza Marilyn Home and Montserrat Caballe' has performed in bel canto operas...
...appearance marked her U.S. debut, and is the latest in a long string of firsts for the Dallas Civic Opera. The company, in fact, like its older cousins in San Francisco and Chicago, has introduced so many topflight opera singers to the U.S.-among them Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballe, Jon Vickers-that its productions are like previews of what will be heard later...
During its last season in its storied and gloried old house, New York's Metropolitan Opera offered some superb new singers, including Italian Soprano Mirella Frem, Spanish Soprano Montserrat Caballe and Bulgarian Basso Nicolai Ghiaurov. The Met also launched its new national touring company, whose performances ranged from a fine Cinderella to a terrible Carmen. Opera companies in other cities tirelessly found out-of-the-way things to do, for instance, the Kansas City production of Handel's 241-year-old Julius Caesar and the Boston premiere of Italian Composer Luigi Nono s starkly modern Intolleranza...