Word: rigoletto
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DIED. ROBERT MERRILL, 87, powerful baritone who was a favorite at the Metropolitan Opera; in New York City. In his 30 years at the Met, he was regarded as one of the greatest Verdi baritones of his generation, singing the title role in Rigoletto many times. Unlike other opera singers of his era, Merrill never avoided the mainstream. He made many recordings, including one of the national anthem that was used for years to open games at Yankee Stadium...
...DIED. ROBERT MERRILL, 87, powerful baritone who was a favorite at the Metropolitan Opera for three decades; in New York City. In his 30 years at the Met, he was regarded as one of the greatest Verdi baritones of his generation, singing the title role in Rigoletto many times. Unlike many opera singers of his age, Merrill never avoided the mainstream: he appeared occasionally in Las Vegas and his recording of the national anthem was used for many years to open games at Yankee Stadium...
...belief in things which might perhaps deter others." The famous haka war ritual performed by New Zealand's All Blacks rugby team, a posturing display of aggression, is the ultimate Kiwi demonstration of confidence, and Lemalu, soft-spoken with a frequent laugh, comes from a background more rugby than Rigoletto. "The fact that I sang in the choir sat uneasily with my rugby playing as far as the other boys were concerned. But I really enjoyed it." With a Schubert disc due out next year and debuts at London's Royal Opera and with the Berlin Philharmonic coming up soon...
...Francisco Opera specializes in movie-into-opera custom conversion jobs designed to tantalize non-operagoers who don't know Rigoletto from rigatoni. Two years ago, it was A Streetcar Named Desire, with superstar soprano Renee Fleming as Blanche Dubois; now it's Dead Man Walking, with superstar mezzo Susan Graham as Sister Helen Prejean, the spiritual adviser who brings salvation to a death-row inmate, the role for which Susan Sarandon won an Academy Award. The score is by Jake Heggie, a gifted purveyor of bittersweet art songs, and the libretto is by playwright-opera buff Terrence McNally (The Lisbon...
Madama Butterfly, Puccini 21 Don Giovanni, Mozart 16 La Boheme, Puccini 15 Rigoletto, Verdi 12 Aida, Verdi 11 La Traviata, Verdi 11 Carmen, Bizet 9 Cosi Fan Tutte, Mozart 9 Die Fledermaus, Strauss 9 Die Zauberflote, Mozart...