Word: operatice
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Most of the play is a treat to watch. The capable acting is complemented by an imaginative set, which suggests the salons and bedrooms of upperclass chateaux. The period costumes are similarly impressive, and fashion reveals much about the social situation of the characters in the play. At one point...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Returns from two-month holiday in Scotland to fresh soap-operatic bouts with Fergie and Di
Nevertheless, some observations should be made. DeLima's roles in Harvard opera have always been the grandes dames -- the Countess in "Marriage of Figaro," and in "Die Fledermaus" as well. That is to say, she has a solid operatic voice, better for power than for subtlety. (Even in this nightclub...
What deLima did have, in abundance, was the willingness to make a show of herself, without which the whole evening would have been hopeless. She came down into the audience and pretended to berate an audience member (A plant? He bore it with too much grace not to be,) in...
DIED. LJUBA WELITSCH, 83, Bulgarian-born soprano acclaimed for her vivid operatic performances; in Vienna. Welitsch played to ecstatic audiences in the 1940s and '50s, before overuse ruined her voice.