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...artistic director of the Pennsylvania Ballet, will get Martins' version of Bournonville's La Sylphide. For the Hartford Ballet, Martins will do a ballet set to Schubert. There is doubtless more Schubert in store for the home company too, but before that he will set a Rossini overture for Merrill Ashley, N.Y.C.B.'s allegro virtuoso...
...Maybe I made a mistake in my career years ago," says Prey, 53, reflectively. "I should probably have switched to more dramatic roles earlier." Outstanding as the guileless Papageno in Mozart's The Magic Flute, the rakish Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus and the clever Figaro in both Rossini's The Barber of Seville and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, Prey has unwillingly become typecast as an operatic nice guy. It is understandable. Who can see him as a villain...
...Miracle. The epilogue finds Hoffmann back in the tavern where he began the evening-drunken, disheveled and disabused of idealistic notions, but inspired to write his feverish tales. For all its legerdemain, the staging provides an unsentimental, clear-eyed view of the only serious opera by the man whom Rossini called the "Mozart of the Champs Elys...
Bach Society Orchestra--Diana Watt, music director; Jessica Krash, piano soloist; music of Rossini, Beethoven, Ives and Haydn; Sanders Theater...
...Donna del Lago is Home's seventh Rossini opera. Although she has sung such disparate roles as Carmen and Marie in Berg's Wozzeck, it is with Rossini that she has had her greatest triumphs. In 1964, she first came to attention in the "pants" role of Arsace in Semiramide. Home has stayed at the top of her profession for 20 years by taking care of her voice. Says...