Word: rodolfo
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...Prince-Joseph, in his album Anything Goes (RCA Camden), coaxes surprisingly sensuous sonorities out of his pedal harpsichord. His album achieves a fusion of styles that he refuses to label either jazz or classical. In I Could Have Danced All Night, for instance, he starts with a theme from Rodolfo's aria, Che gelida manina from La Bohème, develops the second chorus as a Mozart sonatina, cuts loose briefly with a sample of stride harpsichord, returns to Bohème in the coda. The album should send hi-fi bugs skittering, but no sound...
...RODOLFO JANUSZOWSKI Buenos Aires
Tenor Surface was singing Rodolfo in Puccini's La Bohème. It was the latest effort of one of the U.S.'s most remarkable opera groups, run by members of the Fair Lady cast for their own training and amusement...
Bread & Butter. What all these men, including Pietro Nenni himself, apparently forgot was that 1) Red agents have had ten years of alliance in which to infiltrate Socialist ranks and 2) for most of those years Nenni left supervision of the party machinery to the late Rodolfo Morandi, an iron-fisted crypto-Communist. Besides, many influential Nenni Socialists earn their bread and butter as bureaucrats in Italy's biggest labor union, the Red-dominated CGIL...
...from a turn-of-the-century Paris that had never heard of existentialism. The work is not only good opera but good soap opera, telling the torturous romance of a working girl and her artist lover. The scene is the same turbulent Paris where Bohème's Rodolfo and Mimi loved, but while Puccini's Bohemians are really passionate Italians, Charpentier's characters are really Parisians-frothy, but a little stylized for all the sugar-sweet music. Made famous overnight by Louise in 1900, Composer Charpentier spent the rest of his life vainly trying to imitate...