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...charm and freshness; she seemed set for a predictable rise in the soubrette roles of grand opera. But Upshaw had ideas of her own. A few years earlier, one of her voice teachers, Jan DeGaetani, had told her to "seek your own path." Upshaw took that advice. From Mozart to Stravinsky to show tunes, she sings a far wider range of music than is typical for an international star, yet at 34 she has risen faster and further than any other American singer of her generation...
...never been busier. This fall she sings Mozart at the Met (The Marriage of Figaro, Idomeneo) while preparing a January recital for Lincoln Center at which James Levine will accompany her. She has recently released two classical albums: songs by Aaron Copland (with baritone Thomas Hampson), and lieder by Schumann, Schubert, Wolf and Mozart, with texts by Goethe, accompanied by pianist Richard Goode. Due out in October is a record that shows yet another departure: music from Eastern Europe with the Kronos Quartet...
...sixth course--Literature and Arts B-54, "Chamber Music from Mozart to Ravel"-- will be taught in the fall by Professor of Music Robert D. Levin. It was approved at a recent meeting of the core standing committee, according to Lewis...
Figaro was chosen to inaugurate the building because it was the opening opera in 1934. Then as now, the festival emphasizes Mozart and, in general, ensemble works. Glyndebourne has more arresting and ambitious productions in its warehouse. But if the Figaro sets were pedestrian, the cast lived up to the company's formidable reputation for ensemble excellence (though there were standouts, notably Hagley and Marie-Ange Todorovitch, as Cherubino). Poor Renee Fleming, as the Countess, was stuck with the staging's only coarse moments. Somehow director Stephen Medcalf thought to dramatize the lady's unhappiness by portraying...
...based in Paris and not an old festival hand, found herself crying when the orchestra struck up God Save the Queen on opening night. "I thought that, after 60 years, they had the courage to try and improve on success. I thought the music doesn't change -- Mozart is always the same -- but here are all these young singers who are making him fresh again." Of all opera houses in the world, perhaps only Glyndebourne, with its setting and its devotion to singing rather than to stars, can evoke such tears...