Word: sopranoes
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Levin is partial to the kind of playful verbal humor which Eugene Ionesco used brilliantly in The Bald Soprano. Sometimes the dialogue falls flat: "I was trying to catch a fly." "Why?" "Why? Would you have me catch a cold instead?" But more often it is mildly amusing, as when one of the men logically demonstrates that the tree is not a tree. The funniest moment in the play, though, is not verbal at all; it comes when the other man is unable...
...comes on like the launching of a thousand spaceships and fades out like a souped-up sound track for Hitchcock's The Birds; it happens to be the most communicative example of electronic music yet recorded. Midst a welter of high-decibel cacophony, the voice of a boy soprano speaks...
...success. The present season will see polished performances ranging from Don Giovanni and Madame Butterfly to Honegger's Joan of Arc, combined with a flair for the new. In the much-anticipated American premiere of the late Alban Berg's unfinished, powerful and grittily atonal opera Lulu, Soprano Joan Carroll will sing the dissolute heroine...
...world like a rabid gnome, Margie Hertz in the part of Mad Margaret, the village looney, almost stole the show. It was a joy to watch the diminutive Miss Hertz sprinting purposefully through a forest of knees in the second act patter trio. With a lovely soprano voice and superb comic timing Kathleen Campbell played a village beauty, Rose Maybud-"sweet Rose Maybud," as she often reminds us. Demurely and discreetly, she was a girl on the Victorian make. Her turn came in the second act's "Tight Little Craft" sequence when, with a Maiden At Prayer expression transfixing...
...chorus performed its best on the fugues, particularly in the "Rex Tremendae," and during the powerful stanzas of "Dies irae," "Hostias," and "Sanctus." Unfortunately, the potentially powerful beginning of the "Rex Tremendae" was marred by the painfully discordant entrance of the soprano section...