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Back home in Sydney for only the second time in 23 years, Australian Soprano Joan Sutherland, 47, wasted no time in exercising a native's prerogative. She criticized the city's flamboyant new $148.5 million opera house that perches on the harbor like a multiwinged gull. "I can see it's too small," said 5 ft. 10 in. Joan before she made her operatic debut there in Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann. "The designer is even making my costumes smaller so the scale is right." Then she added, "What you need now is an opera house...
...more indigenous to the West Indies. Music Director Igor Buketoff led a crisp, idiomatic performance that drew the most from Egk's acrobatic orchestral score and made the blues passages seem natural, less like interludes. As Jeanne, Newcomer Barbara Hendricks from Little Rock, Ark., displayed a ravishing lyric soprano voice. Karl Brock not only handled the rigorous tenor lead role of Christoph with a convincing mixture of despair and bravado but also produced a splendid English translation of Egk's German libretto...
...there in my civvies, staring at all those black and red costumes, I kept wondering if everything was hanging right," said Beverly Sills, confessing to stage fright. On an unfamiliar stage last week, the Brooklyn-born soprano became an honorary doctor of music in Harvard Yard, along with Mstislav Rostropovich, the Russian cellist. "It was much more nerve-racking than any performance," said Beverly. "Maybe I should have sung instead." Doctor Beverly joshed Husband and Harvard Alumnus Peter Greenough saying, "I'm a Harvard man just like the other Greenoughs." Then she referred to her son Bucky...
Another Doctor of Music was awarded to Beverly Sills, the renowned lyric coloratura soprano and leading singer of the New York City Opera Company...
Since then, she has sung most of the roles written for lighter soprano, both lyric. and coloratura. In the process, she has come to be regarded by critics as one of the world's three or four operatic "superstars." She will soon make her debut with the Metropolitan Opera...