Word: puccini
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...imported from Germany to do Tristan and Isolde and Die Walküre. At week's end, Italian Coloratura Contralto Giulietta Simionato and Tenor Cesare Valletti drew ovations in Massenet's rarely heard Werther. German Soprano Inge Borkh is on tap for Strauss's Elektra and Puccini's Turandot...
...uncanny, at times it sounded like a good movie sound track rather than full-blooded, dramatic music. Episodic treatment (like the book, the opera is divided into nine separate scenes) broke the mood with each intermission. Moreover, critics noted, the Von Einem score was derivative - now a dash of Puccini, now Tchaikovsky, now Stravinsky. The opera's best feature : three scenes in which Joseph K. (superbly characterized by German Tenor Max Lorenz) is involved with different women, all beautifully sung by Switzerland's Soprano Lisa Delia Casa (who will appear at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera this season...
...Opera Theater (Sat. 5 p.m., NBC). Puccini's Sister Angelica...
...night, an audience of 2,000 found Giannini's music agreeably oldfashioned, and although the show was no Kiss Me, Kate, they went away humming the tunes. Composer Giannini, 49, a Manhattan professor of composition, sounded more than once as if he had gone to melody school with Puccini...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Puccini's Tosca, with Kirsten, Tagliavini, Schoeffler...