Word: rigoletto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anna Moffo, Eileen Farrell and Leontyhe Price, the Metropolitan Opera last week introduced Manhattan audiences to yet another fine American soprano-Hartford-born Gianna D'Angelo. Soprano D'Angelo, 31, made her debut portraying one of the silliest of all operatic heroines, Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto. But she triumphed over the role with such apparent ease that by evening's end she was firmly fixed as one of the Met's most promising sopranos...
...Rigoletto & Lady Zorro. Along Blackpool's strand last week, 14 vaudeville and burlesque houses were offering everything from rock 'n' roll to arias from Rigoletto, and a "direct from America" girly show featuring a black-masked nude known as Lady Zorro. There was a puppet show, an acrobatic act, a North American dog act, and a show called Don't Stop, You're Killing Me, a revue thinly disguised as melodrama, which incorporated a squad of "police" who, more or less as if sent by Luigi Pirandello, entered the theater telling everyone in the audience...
...whole generation of operagoers saw in Warren's burly figure (5 ft. 11 in., 200 lbs.) and big, "burnished voice the natural embodiment of opera's great villains-the grandly tormented Macbeth, the insinuatingly oily hunchback Rigoletto, the ravening Count di Luna of Trovatore. But he was also wonderfully effective in roles that called for massive dignity and restraint-Germont in Traviata, the title role in Simon Boccanegra. What Warren lacked in natural acting ability he more than made up with his remarkable and splendidly controlled voice; it had impressive size, fine texture and immense range. Warren even...
...career developed haltingly. A slow study, he labored as much as seven months over each new role, engaging in a staggering amount of research. For Rigoletto, he read 16th century Italian history, studied Renaissance paintings, visited museums to make notes on costumes. Even so, after nearly 20 years, he confided to a friend that he felt he was only beginning to "get into" the part...