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...Puccini: Tosca (Soprano Montserrat Caballé, Tenor José Carreras, Baritone Ingvar Wixell, orchestra and chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis conductor, Philips; 2 LPs). This interpretation of Tosca is nothing if not eccentric. Davis' reading of the florid score is rich and clear but systematically undramatic. As the idealistic painter Cavaradossi, Carreras gives a properly ardent performance, but it seems lost on this particular Tosca. The elegant Caballé can no more be made into the hot-blooded actress than the eyes of Cavaradossi's Mary Magdalen can be changed from blue...
...world over with what once would be considered dull singing, a trend that confirms my suspicion of a steady decline in operatic sensibilities. This decline may have started at roughly the same time that Opera began to die as an art form: something which occurred after the death of Puccini and before that of Benjamin Britten. We are now an artistically starved audience, looking at the operatic stage not as an expression of contemporary life, but as a musical museum, where singers execute historical documents, with technical accuracy and precision but little sincerity. Today the opera houses of the world...
...Metropolitan Opera in Boston opens its engagement this week, including a performance of Puccini's tragedy-opera "Tosca," first produced in 1900. Hynes Veterans Auditorium, 31 St. James Ave., Boston. For tickets and info...
...them on the President's desk so that he can make mental notes of what he is hearing. Some of the music for this Wednesday: Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Verdi's Otello, Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, selections from Puccini and Mozart...
...learned, Soprano Carole Farley looks good in anything, but especially scanties. Pretty and bosomy, yet as long-legged and graceful as a model, Farley also has a warm, sensuous voice. She handles Berg's music, some of the most difficult of our time, as though it were by Puccini...