Word: singed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flying Colors. Last week Gwyneth Jones was put to her severest test yet, stepping in for the ailing Leontyne Price to sing the demanding role of Leonora in the opening of Covent Garden's new production of II Trovatore. She passed with flying colors, though she was scored for occasionally giving too free a rein to her voice when spiraling into the upper registers. What thrilled the audiences was the raw power of her bright, heroic soprano, a tidal wave of a voice that all but drowned out Tenor Bruno Prevedi...
...money's worth out of the one I could hear. Tell the actors not to watch you, but to listen to the orchestra (this should increase co-ordination of singers and orchestra, and improve the acting). Ask Miss Janet Walker, who has the best voice in the cast, to sing in English, not Utopian. And tune the orchestra...
...canto tenor, which he uses to good effect. Greg Sandow, his wacky sidekicks Guglielmo, holds his own with the baritone part and caught the audience off guard with his frequent wry sallies. Thomas Weber, as Don Alfonso, was even better, in a difficult part which required him to sing while snickering at the plot all evening. Patricia Stedry, as Despina, a little out of her range perhaps, nevertheless made an excellent co-conspirator with Don Alfonso in their sotto voce duets...
Greg, having missed his cue, ran back on stage to sing a belated "What makes you think that women are capable of cuckolding" at Don Alfonso. "See?" Holly Worthen, a chorus member, exclaimed. "This is eight times as funny as either Gilbert or Sullivan! The music is better and the plot's ridiculous, but it's a self-conscious kind of ridiculous. People are always going off on the side of the stage and saying, 'Isn't this absurd...
...they're alert, they'll get it." Tom gets lots of chances to play directly to his audience while being deceptive, coming to the front of the stage and telling them how deceptive he is. "As anyone can see, I'm not bashful," he said. "I enjoy singing and acting. This opera is close to drama. The recitatives have been cut and dialogue substituted so that we don't have to sing on sixteenth-notes. Doing the opera in English was an excellent idea, although in this place it's difficult to hear English even with your best diction...