Word: sopranos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outdone, however, are the two leads played by Harvard students. Margery Hellmold '83, who will star in Gilbert & Sullivan's The Gondoliers next month, brings her beautiful, seemingly effortless soprano to the title role. She plays one half of a pair of street singers in Peru and is lured away from her partner Piquillo, by the Viceroy, played by Dominic A.A. Randolph '84. Through a series of Contrivances, she is married to Piquillo without Piquillo's knowledge. Piquillo later discovers the secret but then comes to believe that La Perichole is the Viceroy's mistress; her task is to convince...
...opera probably should have been called Verdi's Radames instead of Aida. Never mind that more important roles are assigned to the eponymous soprano heroine and her mezzo nemesis, Amneris. In San Francisco last week, the attention and the money (up to $750 for scalpers' tickets) was on the tenor. Of course, the man who was singing Verdi's Egyptian captain for the first time in his career was no ordinary performer: it was the portly mink-coat model, frequent guest on the Tonight show, American Express-card pitchman, would-be movie star and, these days, part...
...rough and ragged, belted out with a desperate fortissimo instead of the more difficult pianissimo that Verdi called for in the score. Elsewhere, Pavarotti's eyes clung to the safety of the prompter's box and the conductor's baton, leaving most of the acting to Soprano Margaret Price (battling a bronchial infection but singing well nonetheless) and Stefania Toczyska, a sultry Polish mezzo and a star of the future, whose Amneris blazed with passionate fury...
CLASSICAL: Contemporary Music Concert; Pamela Fraley, soprano, Betty Hillman, Cellist, and members of the Tufts Music faculty; Alumnae Hall; Thursday...
Chamber Music of Bustenude and Purcall--Boston Museum Trlo and guests Nancy Armstrong, soprano, and Anthony Martin, baroque violin; Remis Auditoriu, Museum of Fine Arts...