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...stride until the sun seekers' stampede from the Northeast begins, but in its emphasis on big names and traditional works, it sometimes outdoes Dallas. Miami will open with Cesare Siepi in Boris Godunov (Jan. 17). Later on it will feature Sherrill Milnes in Macbeth (March 7), Carole Neblett, along with Domingo, in La Fanciulla del West. In Jackson, Miss., the all-black company Opera/South gives young singers the chance to be heard in standard works (The Flying Dutchman, Elixir of Love). Black composers get their day too. On Nov. 20 Ulysses Kay's new opera Jubilee will...
...other reasons than to inspire the finest film and slide work ever done for an opera production in New York, and to observe Soprano Carol Neblett as Marietta. With a full, sexily luscious dramatic soprano and a figure to match, Neblett is fast becoming the Rita Hayworth of American opera singers. As for the music, the sad thing is that though Korngold was a master of the various orchestral styles prevalent around 1920, and often used them with ingenuity and some originality, he never grew beyond that point...
...Radcliffe, Vassar, Brown and the University of California. But in those same years, the anxiety over ghetto upheavals has also decreased, and so has the concern of private donors. About half of Harlem Prep's supporters have turned to other programs. Says Exxon's Spokesman Richard F. Neblett: "Most corporations structure their grants to demonstrate innovation. They can't fund an independent program ad infinitum...
...some, these changes seem hardly tragic. If the city guarantees the basic financing, some former donors like Exxon and the Ford Foundation indicate that they would again provide special help. Says Exxon's Neblett: "It is important that alternative techniques of education be part of the public schools. The system should adapt and incorporate change." Others are less sanguine. "All you need to do is to look at the problems in other schools to know what's going to happen here," says Math Teacher Keary. "The public schools just don't work for these kids...
...realm of the abstract. Set Designer David Mitchell and Stage Director Tito Capobianco placed the Prologue not in Heaven but in space. The Epilogue suggests Earth as a dying planet illuminated by the corpse of a setting sun. The production was strongly cast in other major roles. Carol Neblett, a vocally arresting but inexperienced soprano, did both Margherita and Helen of Troy. As Faust, Tenor Robert Nagy sang powerfully but with obvious effort. Julius Rudel's conducting rose successfully to the peaks but tended to coast through the occasional deserts of Boito's score...