Word: sopranos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KURT WEILL CABARET (MGM) faithfully captures the spirit of the year's best tribute to Weill and his collaborators. Folksinger Will Holt is passable, but Soprano Martha Schlamme (TIME, June 21) is passionately aware of each song's message, and her singing is a dulcet expression of irony, grief...
...DANNY KAYE SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Guests are Soprano Eileen Farrell, Actor Louis Jourdan and Saxophonist Gerry Mulligan...
...GINE CRESPIN (Angel). Soprano Crespin has the distinction of being both the finest operatic voice of France and one of opera's leading Wagnerians. Here she sings arias from Tannhüiuser together with Verdi's Otello and Il Trovatore, Rossini's William Tell and Berlioz' Damnation of Faust, and seems equally at home in all four styles and all three languages...
VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES: MÉLODIES DE FRANCE (Angel). Soprano De los Angeles has a voice as well-suited to dulcet song cycles from France as to the Spanish repertory she often sings. Here, with little help from the Paris Conservatory Orchestra under Georges Prétre, she sings Ravel, Duparc and Debussy with ease and grace...
Resnais fails at last because of his very strengths: a thin narrative collapses under the weight of technical virtuosity. He offers shadow instead of substance, a clutter of seemingly irrelevant minutiae (a shrill soprano on the sound track, doors endlessly opening and closing, limbo shots of notes being written, reams of small talk, and provocative clues to heaven-knows-what) instead of reality's elusive core. "When you get right down to it, it's a trite story," remarks Actress Seyrig to her long-lost vis-à-vis. A master without a theme, Resnais has claimed that...