Word: rigoletto
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...discovery of 27,000 "errors" between Verdi's finished manuscript of Falstaff and recent editions. I prefer to say "differences." for who knows exactly which are the errors? Should we call the posthumous changes, which rise to over 200 on a single page, revisions or falsifications? In Rigoletto, La donna é mobile began pianissimo in 1912 and forte in 1954, although Verdi died...
...Selva got permission to use the Xavier Theater (attached to the Xavier High School), began by putting on concert programs, then added opera. Since then, the symphony has given 50 concerts, 35 operatic performances (Tosca, Rigoletto, Traviata, Boheme, Bleecker Street...
...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...
...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...