Word: operettas
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...songs dropped from the original. Director Prince and his co- creators acknowledge their backstage affinity, although they also cite the show's literary significance as one of the first musicals to take on political subjects, integrate song and dance into the plot and range from barroom tunes to operetta. Prince calls Show Boat "the first great modern musical...
...pull off the common touches as only a B-movie actor could, but his wife offset those by ordering a set of hand-painted china inscribed NANCY and a closetful of unpaid-for designer creations. Nixon dressed up the White House guards like something out of a Sigmund Romberg operetta...
...Casilda, meanwhile, is secretly in love with the Duke's servant, Luis, whose mother is (of course) the former nurse of the King of Barataria who is the only one who can determine the true identity of the King. If you have seen more than one Gilbert and Sullivan operetta you can pretty much figure out the rest of the plot without thinking too hard...
...seen one Gilbert and Sullivan Operetta, you can pretty much figure out the rest of the plot without thinking too hard...
...hover over her career, like Barenboim and Levine, hope she sticks to her resolve. The fact is that, lovely as her voice is, it is not large. But 26 is very young. It is nearly impossible to predict how a voice will develop; the supreme Wagnerian Kirsten Flagstad sang operetta in her 20s. "You must never force," Bartoli insists. "The test is after the concert: Is the voice still fresh so that you could go on and on?" She certainly passed the test with Levine. When she auditioned for him, he let the session...