Word: rossini
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Male Lead: Frederick Brozer, as Figaro in Rossini's "Barber of Seville" (Harvard Opera Guild); Ronald Gerbrands, as Basilio in "Barber of Seville"; Harold Scott, as Jupiter in Offenbach's "Orpheus in Hades" (Lowell...
...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...
...Rossini: Sonatas for Strings (Solisti di Zagreb; Vanguard). Teen-age instrumental works by one of the world's most brilliant vocal composers. His irresistible melody is already bubbling, and there is hardly a note that does not solace the ear. The style is as neat, light and humorous as Rossini's later coloratura arias...
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...
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...