Word: sopranos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Barbara Winchester, soprano, and Ann Sears, piano: Warburg Hall, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard...
...author and illustrator, who also designed a sparkling production of Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges that premiered at the New York City Opera last month, has brilliantly re-created his fable for the stage, giving it a disarming, storybook two-dimensionality. There is the wolf-suited Max (Soprano Karen Beardsley), a youthful holy terror who hangs his Teddy bear and decapitates his toy soldiers. There is Max's snug bedroom, where he is commanded to repair without supper after his mother (Mezzo Mary King) loses patience with his antics. Just as in the book, the room blossoms into...
Music in the Parlor: Classical guitar and soprano, Donna Tongue, soprano. The United Parish in Brookline, 210 Harvard St., 3:00pm...
Faculty Recital: Joan Heller, Soprano, Terry Decima, piano. Works of Schubert, Faure, Britten and Elizabeth Lutyens. Concert Hall, Boston University...
Vocal quality was high throughout: Tenor Rene Kollo's sturdy Siegfried, Bass- Baritone Walter Berry's crafty Alberich, the ripe Fricka of Mezzo-Soprano Hanna Schwarz in Das Rheingold. A delightful bonus was the Walkure Fricka and Gotterdammerung Waltraute of Vienna-born Mezzo Helga Dernesch, who some years ago was an important Isolde and Brunnhilde. Combining her still considerable power with a riveting dramatic presence, Dernesch gave a lesson in Wagnerian artistry. Conductor Edo de Waart was too often cautious when he should have been impetuous, but he roused himself in Gotterdammerung to deliver a reading of surge and sweep...