Word: puccini
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...London and Paris, there will also be Mozart festivals in more unexpected places, ranging from Bartlesville, Okla., to Dunedin, New Zealand. When all the cheering finally dies, this will probably have been the largest and loudest celebration of any artist in human history. Says one New Yorker who prefers Puccini: "Where can I hide...
...Complete Caruso (RCA Victor). The master's voice: Enrico Caruso's matchless discography (1902-20), now released on 12 CDs. At home in everything from Puccini arias to George M. Cohan's Over There, Caruso continues to be revered, rightly, as the greatest Italian tenor who ever lived...
...Even if it were, he still didn't write "La Boheme." Puccini...
...Puccini also wrote "Tosca," "Madame Butterfly," and lots of other sonorous things. None of them was atrocious either...
...deny that the choices are sound ones. Abbado is a conductor of great range, equally at home, as Karajan was, in opera and symphonic music. His repertoire, however, is wider than Karajan's largely meat-and-potatoes Central European diet. "Musical history does not end with Puccini," Abbado declared after his election by the self-governing orchestra. Salonen, whose photogenic, blond good looks are sure to be an asset in image-conscious Los Angeles, is even more adventurous. "The Salonen appointment in Los Angeles indicates an orchestra possibly trying to change the image of what an orchestra might be about...