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...NORMA LEE MAHDAVI ERIC CAMPBELL REPLOGLE Bronxville...
...times, Michael's actors give him admirable support. Tigar as Jaques is a large figure, touching and funny, and even his lugubrious soliloquy comes off well in the end. Newenhuyse's Adam is far funnier than it is wrong-headed. Norma Levin is a strong and charming Rosalind, playing her maturation for good laughs and better audience identification, emphasizing the quick intelligence of Shakespeare's heroine. Danius Turek is a triumph of physical casting as Orlando, a huge, handsome, stereotype sweetheart, his readings and emotional range consistently pleasing. As portrayed by Carolyn Firth, Celia is at once acid and naive...
Vincenzo Bellini's 1831 opera Norma is one of the Matterhorns of the repertory for sopranos. Many of the world's finest singers have come to grief on its melodic precipices because they lacked the bel canto technique, emotional projection, and soaringly powerful voice that the title role requires. The 19th century Soprano Lilli Lehmann said it was easier to sing three Brünnhildes than one Norma, and the great French Prima Donna Pauline Viardot was so obsessed with the difficulties of the part that the last word she spoke on her deathbed was "Norma." Maria Callas...
...last week in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, 24-year-old Greek Soprano Elena Suliotis went about rehearsing a concert version of Norma with the American Opera Society as if she had never heard any of this. Her attitude: "What is there to be afraid of?" She soon found out. When the lights went up for the intermission, the audience discovered in its midst not only a daunting array of singers from the past but also the diva of divas, Callas, enthroned in a corner box. Immediately the entire house turned in claque-like obeisance to Callas; galvanized...
...someone thinks norma mailer is more important than hank williams, that's fine. I have no arguments an i never drink milk. i would rather model harmonica holders than discuss aztec anthropology...