Word: rossini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rather sit at dinner next to one of those old ladies who tell you, 'Picasso is a fraud and Stravinsky a bore,' than beside one of those young things who rave about their Klee paintings and their Bartok quartets . . . Today Brahms can no longer be tolerated, but Rossini is very chic...
Soprano Dobbs has traveled as far and fast as her admirers could have hoped, since she bowed at La Scala as Elvira in Rossini's L'ltaliana in Algeri three years ago (TIME, March 16, 1953). In Europe she has appeared before both opera and concert audiences from Stockholm to Mi lan. While studying in Paris she met her husband, a Spanish journalist named Luis Rodriguez, lost him 14 months later (he died of a liver ailment), two days before she was to sing a command performance of Le Cog d'Or at London's Covent...
There are few operas more consistently delightful than The Barber of Seville. Fashioned from Beaumarchais' sprightly comedy of aristocratic highjinks, the libretto is succinct and funny. Rossini's music fits perfectly, being gay, tuneful, and happily short-winded...
This music, however, is as difficult to sing as it is easy to listen to. All the major parts have florid melodies to sing, as in Rossini's day coloratura was not only for sopranos. No one in last night's cast completely escaped this difficulty, but the singers made up in spirit what they lacked in flexibility. Anne Wallace had the least trouble with the style, and as well as singing tastefully she looked very pretty as Rosina...
Tentatively scheduled to open Nov. 29, the Rossini opera will be the Guild's first production in a planned program which will include at least two performances a year...