Word: musettas
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...soul doomed to an untimely death, falls in love at first sight with her neighbor Rodolfo, member of a lovable band of starving artists. Their love affair, made torrid by Rodolfo's jealousy, is mirrored by a no less tumultuous relationship between Marcello the painter and the fiercely independent Musetta...
Rodolfo's painter cohort Marcello, played by Michael Drumheller, lacks personality and expressivity. It is small wonder that the saucy Musetta, played by Penny Rubinfield, proves too much for him in the third act. Rubinfield is a fiesty flirt who uses the low dramatic energy around her to her advantage; she draws every eye to her, both on stage and off, with admirable seconda donna tactics. The conviction and simplicity of Josh Benaim's cameo "coat aria" in the fourth act place the aria closer to Puccini's original intentions than many a bass who overplay the fact that they...
...that Puccini intended--particularly in the second act--than other moments in the evening where enthusiasm seems low. One is left with the impression that the students at Cafe‚ Momus could be more boisterous, the lovers more tender (or more fiery, in the case of Marcello and Musetta), the four artists more convivial...
...Mimi Benzell, 47, Metropolitan Opera soprano turned successful Broadway, TV and nightclub singer; of cancer; in Manhasset, N.Y. Making her Met debut at age 21 as the Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute, she won acclaim for such roles as Gilda in Rigoletto and Musetta in La Boheme before moving to Broadway, where she starred in the long-running musical Milk and Honey...
...Fair Lady workshop singers (some have joined from other musical casts) have had no operatic training, but some hope for careers in opera. The Musetta in last week's Bohème rehearsal, Lola Fisher, was Julie Andrews' able understudy as Eliza Doolittle, and Mimi was Evelyn Aring, who sings on the Firestone Hour...