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This month alone, she has already performed a trilogy of operatic queens at the New York City Opera that amply confirms her own regal gifts: Elizabeth I in Donizetti's Roberto Devereux (see cover), Shemakha in Rimsky-Korsakov's Le Coq d'Or and Cleopatra in Julius Caesar. Starting this week she and the New York City Opera will recreate all three during a three-week guest stand in Los Angeles (planned for next spring is a new production by Beverly and the company of another Donizetti queen, Maria Stuarda). Early next month, she will give two performances of Lucia...
...Roberto Devereux, Beverly's researches convinced her that at the time of the opera's action, Elizabeth I would have been a much older woman than is usually portrayed. Appearing at rehearsal one day made up as a 60-year-old, Beverly persuaded the company that she was right?including Director Capobianco. Onstage, that makeup lends a harsh poignance to the climactic moment when Elizabeth, her voice dry and pinched, sentences her recalcitrant lover Essex to death...
ALBERT GENE ROBERTO...
...Court of Appeals judge with a firm record on law-and-order. As a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge in 1951, it was Mrs. Lillie who denied Ingrid Bergman permission to have a summer visit from her daughter, Pia Lindstrom, after the actress had left her family for Roberto Rossellini. In divorce cases, Judge Lillie practiced marriage counseling from the bench; one of her theories was that if the wife was crying at the hearing, the marriage could be saved. Her talents as a legal thinker were, many experts agreed, pedestrian...
...permanent additions to the repertory. "Of 20,000 operas written throughout history," he notes, "1 defy anyone to name 50 masterpieces." He has also dug brilliantly into the past to retrieve and remount such almost forgotten musical delights as Handel's Julius Caesar and Donizetti's Roberto Devereux...