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OTHER roles deserving note are Blumenthal's saucy Paquette and Chase's delightfully egotistical--and yet, by the end, humbled-Maximilion. Shining out from the rest, however, is Hughes Cunegonde. In her last prominent Harvard production, Hughes displays her talent as perhaps the best undergraduate soprano in recent years. She brings to Cunegonde a spectacular verve and vibrancy most noticably her awe-inspiring solo, "Glitter and be Gay." Here, she mixes her characters sorrow and desolation at being separated from Candide and at being a where with her absolute glee with the baubles and jewels given her. Her vocal strength...
Sills, formerly the leading soprano with the New York City Opera before her 1980 retirement, is now the Opera's general director. The opera star, who received an honorary Doctorate of Music from Harvard in 1974, signed copies of her 1982 autobiography and her eight albums re-released this year by Angel Records...
Among those who waited up to 20 minutes to get Sills's John Hancock was Charlotte Frazier from Needham, said she looks so much like Sills that people often confuse her for the singer. In fact, Cambridge Police Officer Jack Moynihan--who was assigned to guard the soprano from overzealous fans--said he told Frazier, "I thought you were already here" when she arrived at the Coop...
After Sills signed autographs for more than an hour, Coop General Manager James R. Argeros, presented the soprano with a plaque commemorating the day she spent at the store, saying that the memento represented the "sincere admiration for the joy, compassion, and sense of spirit you have shared with us today...
...never, it is safe to say, has it been cast as it has been in this version: Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa and Tenor Jose Carreras are Maria and Tony, the doomed lovers from rival gangs; Mezzo Tatiana Troyanos is Maria's friend Anita, who feels that life is all right in America; peerless Mezzo Marilyn Horne makes a cameo appearance singing the gentle ballad Somewhere; and, surprisingly, Bernstein conducts his full score for the first time. Far from being a vanity production with a group of slumming opera stars, however, the performance is convincing and vital...