Word: rodolfo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officials in both countries have a persuasive reason to fear that Sindona really was abducted. Their clue: a Polaroid color snapshot of a scraggy Sindona as an apparent captive. It was delivered to the Rome office of Sindona's lawyer, Rodolfo Guzzi, in a plain envelope postmarked Sept. 8, Brooklyn, N.Y. It shows Sindona, gaunt and pale, hair unwashed and jowls unshaved, seated on a plain wooden chair. A cardboard sign covering his chest carries an ominous message crudely printed by his purported kidnapers: IL GIUSTO PROCESSO LO FAREMO NOI (The fair trial will be conducted...
...look at how wide they are, but how tall," says Soprano Beverly Sills. "It is a relief to be able to put your head on a tenor's shoulder." What carries Pavarotti through is his patent sincerity and gut-level identification with his characters. "I can see myself as Rodolfo in Bohème," he says. "Rodolfo is a figure of genuine emotion. This is the real thing, so real that when Mimi enters I feel I want to take care of this woman...
...about painstakingly acquiring a vocal technique from teachers in the area. At 25, having won a vocal competition in nearby Reggio Emilia, he was awarded an engagement in a local production of La Bohème. Within the span of three weeks, he married Adua and sang his first Rodolfo. His debut led to other bookings in Italy and, eventually, at minor houses all over Europe. La Scala offered him a job as a house stand-by for all its tenor roles, but he turned it down: "I thought to myself, when I sing at La Scala I want to come...
Vocally, Pavarotti in recent years has skillfully negotiated the most treacherous shoals that face a tenor. Early in his career he was a classic tenore lirico, ideally suited to lighter lyric roles like Rodolfo, and florid bel canto roles like Nemorino in L'Elisir d'Amore. With age, however, a tenor's voice takes on a heavier tone and darker coloration. By the time he is in his 40s, a tenore lirico is usually ready for roles in the intermediate spin to (pushed) range, like Cavaradossi in Tosca, and maybe even in the forceful, baritonal tenore drammatico category, like...
...voice was fantastically enriched for having sung heavier parts." Pavarotti is preparing the formidable role of Radames in Aida for San Francisco in 1981. Lohengrin may even be down the road some day. "I continue to take risks," he says. "I could spend the rest of my career singing Rodolfo, but it's not in my nature...