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...discreet, controlled way with Mozart that was especially beneficial to some of his younger singers-notably Dutch-born Sonja Foot as Constanze and Montreal's Anna Chornodolska as the maid Blonde. Bass Joseph Rouleau, a regular at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, was lecher-perfect as the Pasha's harem keeper, Osmin. The star of the evening, though, was the five-year-old National Arts Centre Orchestra, a chamber-sized ensemble of 46 that Bernardi conducts in concert during the winter...
...Abduction from the Seraglio is early Mozart at its best. It's got a whole set of funny, likeable characters, from a sublime but fatuous talking pasha to a ridiculous, ferociously villainous guard who gives up his schemes with a malediction worthy of Malvolio or President Nixon. And it's got some remarkable music, from its opening serenade--Mozart had just got married when he wrote the opera, its heroine is named after his wife--to a sextet (I think) at the end that's so reconciling and beautiful and so on it makes everything Mozart wrote later on seem...
...Abduction from the Seragllo is probably the first of Mozart's operas that you're likely to love at first acquaintance. It has a rather joyfully ridiculous plot about a talking pasha and his harem and a ferocious servant and a comical Englishwoman and so on, and some remarkable music, and a number of Harvard people are singing in this production, besides. A new translation and full orchestra. Tonight, February 23, and Saturday, March 2, 8 p.m. at the Peabody School Auditorium on Linnean Street...
What better barge on which to ride out male climacteric than McGee's houseboat Busted Flush (won in a poker game), with its pasha's bed, four-nozzle shower, 1,100-mile range and capacious tanks full of nostalgia and contempt? This time MacDonald gives McGee and his brainy friend Meyer (a retired financier who lives aboard the good ship John Maynard Keynes) some fine autumnal soliloquies...
...White House, and get an unusual peek into the First Family's album of Christmases past. Most remarkable, however, is the spectacle of a nattily dressed Richard Nixon romping on the sitting-room floor with his dogs, King Timahoe, an Irish setter, Vicky, a gray miniature poodle and Pasha, a Yorkshire terrier. The President, doubtless mindful of the outcry when his predecessor tugged on canine ears, scrupulously confined his gestures of affection toward King Timahoe to playful pats...