Word: sopranoes
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Even to operagoers who cheer her vocal brilliance, Soprano Joan Sutherland has often seemed to have the personality of an Amazonian Barbie doll: imposing, but stiff and cool. Recently she dispelled much of that reputation with her hearty clowning in the Metropolitan Opera's production of Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment (TIME, Feb. 28). Last week, with her appearance in the first of two 30-minute TV shows called Who's Afraid of Opera? (PBS), her humanization seemed complete. Singing, lecturing, bantering with a trio of puppets, she was revealed as a thoroughly warm...
...level to those who are already inclined toward it. Still, the proceedings are colorfully photographed and skillfully staged, and even Sir William, the puppet who reads scores and carps about all the cuts, seems to approve. Sir William is both a critic and an aging billy goat. Only a soprano could think of that kind of casting. · Robert T.Jones
...Amalia Balash, the resourceful salesgirl who carries to her rendezvous a copy of Anna Karena and a telltale rose, Joanna Paps tempers her sure comic sense with a full-bodied soprano that is equally effective. Terry Emerson is her unknown admirer, the kind of man who might place an ad (Gentleman, 30, seeks refined, sensitive young lady for conversation and mutual exchange) in the back pages of the New York Review. To his unassuming graces fall the title song and a handful of comic duets...
Ever since Maria Callas' dwindling voice made operatic appearances hazardous, the soprano has looked for things to do. She made a movie of Medea, took up teaching (an opera class at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music) and hinted at a return to the stage. Now, at 48, she has asked a friend, Actor Raf Vallone, to create a suitable movie role for her. Vallone is working on a scenario for a prima donna's dream -Callas is to play Callas in a movie about Callas. "She is one of the very few great individuals we have...
...soon as I walk into the theater, I'm somebody else," says Soprano Beverly Sills. I'm Manon, or Lucia or whoever it happens to be. Even if, God forbid, I'm not getting the message to the audience, I'm getting the message...