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...orchestra pit of any opera house is best heard from, not seen. That was not the case last week, as the Paris Opéra opened at New York's Metropolitan Opera House and Milan's La Scala moved into Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center. It was the first visit to the U.S. for both the storied companies, and in both pits there was unexpected drama on opening night...
Many in the audience were not aware of Solti's dilemma. That cannot be said for what happened at La Scala's first night in Washington. The audience filed into the Kennedy Center Opera House to find the pit raised to the level of the stage. "I've never seen that before," said an usher in response to a ticket holder's question. No one had. The pit had been elevated for a rehearsal that afternoon and the hydraulic lift had stuck. While the audience-including Vice President and Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller and Mrs. Giovanni Leone...
...Scala of Milan will start things off in Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center Opera House. Next evening the Paris Opera will open at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Putting its best forte forward, La Scala will offer-what else?-three Italians named Rossini, Puccini and Verdi. Showing somewhat less of a nationalistic strain, Paris will borrow Verdi for a while, and also offer Mozart the Austrian and, just to avoid outrage back home, France's own Charles Gounod...
...many an opera buff the music is all well and good, but what really counts is the thrill of encountering a glamorous big-name conductor-such as Paris' Sir Georg Solti (who will conduct Le Nozze di Figaro and Otello) or La Scala's dashing Claudio Abbado (Macbeth, La Cenerentola, Simon Boccanegra). Or being present when an important artist breaks through into international stardom-as, say, Paris' dulcet-voiced soprano Margaret Price (the Countess in Figaro, Desdemona in Otello) may well do this time. Before La Scala and Paris wind up their two-week stands (Paris will...
...James F. Holland, head of the cancer center at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, hailed the tests as a "work of monumental importance" that could save hundreds of thousands of lives in the coming decade. Americans, he added, "now can admire more in Milan than La Scala...