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Until last week, Germany's Elisabeth Schwarzkopf was known in the U.S. only by recordings-and by reports from Europe-of her lyric soprano. Last week Manhattan music lovers packed into Town Hall for her U.S. debut, found out firsthand that she is one of the most polished sopranos alive...
...Soprano Schwarzkopf chose her favorite form, German lieder, and, from the time she first opened her mouth, never uttered an unpleasant sound. She ranged with practiced ease from a fragile, little-girl voice in such songs as Schubert's Die Vogel to big, dramatic tones in Hugo Wolf's Kennst Du das Land. She could soar high into the flute altitudes with the same rich quality that she used in her cello-like middle register. Before her program was half over, the audience was convinced; by the end, it was shouting its approval...
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (Kirsten Flagstad, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Thomas Hemsley; members of the Mermaid Theatre, London, conducted by Geraint Jones; H.M.V.). A charming short opera by the finest English composer of all time. Its attractions include a witches' dance, a laughing chorus, a sailors' dance, a hunt scene (with thunderstorm) and, of course, love both requited and tragic. Highlight: Flagstad singing When I Am Laid in Earth...
...action seemed to call for it, Stravinsky's music had a stringent dissonance, but most of the time it was straightforwardly lyrical. There were no ravishing melodies to leave the audience humming, but Anne Trulove's first-act aria - lamenting departed Tom - beautifully sung by Soprano Elizabeth Schwarzkopf of the Vienna State Opera, came close to stopping the show. The other top voices: Tenor Robert Rounseville of the New York City Opera as Tom, Mezzo-Soprano Jennie Tourel as Baba the Turk, the sideshow bearded lady whom Tom marries as a jape...
...best post-election crack we've heard, out here, came from a onetime Democrat who said: "Well, us Democrats took a hell of a beating, didn't we-thank God!" CHET SCHWARZKOPF Eureka, Calif...