Word: sonnambula
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...will not lack work opportunities anytime soon. Covent Garden is on the telephone, pleading that she not cancel a new La Sonnambula because the agreed-upon director has just withdrawn. Italian maestro Riccardo Chailly, who is on her very short list of preferred conductors, wants her for Rossini's The Turk in Italy, not exactly on opera's hit parade, but that does not matter to Anderson. Major new productions have been lined up in Chicago (finally, perhaps, a satisfying Lucia) and San Francisco (La Sonnambula), as well as a new Semiramide next season...
...trip over the other's train. Lady Macbeth's wondrous sleepwalking scene is a long left-to-right stroll on a narrow ledge. The only problem is that Verdi was not interested in a high-wire act-Bellini took care of that very nicely in La Sonnambula-but in the play of Lady Macbeth's bloodstained hands. As Strehler directs her, Lady Macbeth (Verrett) has plenty of trouble keeping her balance, but in the wrong...
...five out. Playing the barber in Man of La Mancha, Leo Blum became so ill that he fell off the stage, and since his understudy was ill, the stage manager had to pinch-hit. At the Metropolitan Opera, John Alexander had to give up after two acts of La Sonnambula. And in Philharmonic Hall, Pianist Jose Echaniz could not even make it past intermission...
...season's first week gave Adler more reason than ever to believe the testimonials to his genius that gleam down on him from the walls of his office. Price, Regina Resnik and Giorgio Tozzi gave him an excellent opening night and Sutherland's Sonnambula won love-letter reviews. There was a sparkling new production of The Barber of Seville, and a Mefistofele in which dancers and chorus kindled each other to spectacular performances on sets that sometimes looked like paintings by Tintoretto. San Francisco was seeing some of the best-produced opera the American season can expect...
...house's first season, he recouped some of his losses by tossing in a special variety show at which Soprano Marcella Sembrich played a violin concerto, moved to the piano to rip off a Chopin mazurka, and sang Ah! non giunge from Bellini's Sonnambula...