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Even by the famously hot-blooded standards of opera, last week's passionate dramma giocoso at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City was positively -- well, operatic. In the fiery lead role was the mercurial lyric soprano Kathleen Battle, renowned for leaving a trail of ill will in her wake wherever she goes. Opposing her were the forces of decorum and rectitude, represented by Met general manager Joseph Volpe. The denouement was catastrophe. Volpe, citing "unprofessional actions . . . profoundly detrimental to the artistic collaboration among all the cast members," summarily fired Battle from this week's production of Donizetti...
...Daniel Barenboim. Following the French performance, Krainik decided that the lighting design was unsuited to the Lyric's stage. "It would have cost us an extra $600,000 just to put up and take down the lights," she explains. So, undaunted, she hired a new director, designer, conductor and soprano to complement her original cast. Baritone Franz Grundheber's tormented Wozzeck, soprano Kathryn Harries' ripe Marie, Graham Clark's strutting Captain and Norman Bailey's Mengelesque Doctor, all under the commanding baton of Richard Buckley, brought Berg's acerbic, atonal ode to the lumpenproletariat to vivid, expressionistic life...
...Cleveland Chamber Symphony and soloists tenor Paul Sperry '56, soprano Julia Kierstine and bass Thomas Paul will perform Bernard Rands' Sun Songs, Moon Songs and Eclipse Songs at 8 p.m. in Paine Hall. Admission is free. Call 495-2791 for details...
...sixth music director in the history of the Cleveland Orchestra was announced in 1982, the reaction was nearly unanimous: Christoph von Who? The Berlin-born Dohnanyi, 53 -- grandson of the urbane composer Erno Dohnanyi, nephew of the martyred Nazi-era theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and husband of the glamorous dramatic soprano Anja Silja -- was nearly unknown in the U.S. Among the few who were aware of him, he was regarded as a workmanlike German kapellmeister with a suspicious fondness for 20th century music, and certainly an odd choice to command an orchestra whose past conductors had included such doughty maestros...
Cabot House Music Society. Pianist Jerome Rosen of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, clarinetist Julie Vaverka, and soprano Ellen Archer perform music by Brahms, Schubert and Schumann. Cabot House, 5:30 p.m. Free...