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Fromm Music Foundation--8:30 pm--Sanders Theater--The Pro Arte String Quartet, assisted by Richard Kogan, piano, Scott Nickrenz, viola, and Beverly Morgan, soprano--works of Bassett, Cruckman, and Imbrie. Free...
...company. In the pit was Gianandrea Gavazzeni, 67, whose 50 years at Milan's La Scala include associations with Toscanini, Mascagni and Giordano. Gavazzeni led a performance that was full of controlled excitement; at the same time, he was consistently thoughtful of his singers. His support of Veteran Soprano Renata Scot to (Leonora), who sang the precarious D 'amor sull 'ali rosee in Act IV with extreme caution, was a memorable lesson in podium gallantry...
...Azucena was Shirley Verrett, who, like Pavarotti, is at a career turning point.A Met regular for eight years, she is basically a mezzo with an unusually high, extended range. Lately, she has been trying to move into the repertory of the dramatic soprano. The results have been only partially successful, largely because in moving higher her voice takes on an icy whiteness of tone. Returning to the mezzo range of Azucena, however, Verrett sang with overwhelming fire and urgency. One would hate to see a woman as lovely as Verrett consigned forever to play a hag like Azucena, but hers...
...dazzling, just finished $125 million convention center. To keep the finance ministers and bankers amused between sessions, Marcos and his wife Imelda also brought in an exhibit of ancient Egyptian treasures, the Soviet Union's Bolshoi Ballet and, from the U.S., Pianist Van Cliburn and Metropolitan Opera Soprano Montserrat Caballe. Even the shanties in the city's slums were freshly whitewashed for the occasion. "It is our hope," Marcos cracked at one dinner for IMF and World Bank officials, "that all this does not disqualify us from seeking...
Mary Travers: Mary's quivering soprano should lend itself ideally to a disco version of "Puff the Disco Dragon." Symphony Hall, Sunday, October...