Word: moser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other roles run from the accomplished but not overdone leporello of Jose van Dam to Kenneth Riegel's wooden Don Ottavio. Among the women, Kiri Te Knawa's Donna Elvira stands out as the most musically agile and dramatically subtle. Edda Moser afflicts Donna Anna with an unfocused voice and the worst of operatic mannerisms--especially ludicrous with instant translation in English subtitles. She shrieks and sways--the subtitle reads, "I'm fainting." She shrieks once again and staggers to embrace a marble column--"I'm dying...
...conquests by his servant Leporello, with the list stretching down the steps of his house and out into the garden; but José Van Dam's engaging Leporello is scarcely allowed to become the buffo scalawag that Mozart and Da Ponte had in mind. Edda Moser as Donna Anna, Teresa Berganza as Zerlina, Kenneth Riegel as Don Ottavio, all throw themselves into their roles with intensity, but only the exotic Kiri Te Kanawa, as Donna Elvira, manages to shake off some of Losey's heavy seriousness. Missing are the wit and verve, the "elate darting rhythms" with which...
...Robert Moser, executive vice president of the American College of Physicians, a consultant on the program...
...hell is Sean Clancy, or Bill Swiacki for that matter. Wow man, these two peons played for Amherst, they were Lord Jeffs; I mean what the hell is a Lord Jeff? These guys got drafted. And take Rich Moser from URI--please...
Funding for the van has come from the general budget of the University, with each of the Faculties contributing a designated percentage, Moser said...