Word: sorceresses
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...laughs. In the course of the show, the prince is stranded in a desert with three oranges that turn into three beautiful, but thirsty, maidens. An audience must be snatched up into the realm of such nonsense, but the "Gozzi Surprise," despite the comical efforts of Ben Haley's sorceress and Rodney Hudson's monstrous cook with a 10-foot, lethal ladle, never gets off the ground. Its absurdity remains strangely humorless and merely casts in greater relief the splendour and sublimity of The King Stag...
Domingo notwithstanding, the Met's Lohengrin was far from a one-man show. Marton, a dazzling Wagnerian soprano who is equally adept at setting off such potent Italian fireworks as Turandot, made a gloriously fearsome opponent as the evil sorceress. Her blazing fury as she confronts her weak husband Telramund (Baritone Franz-Ferdinand Nentwig) near the start of Act II won a spontaneous ovation that stopped the show. Providing a worthy foil for Marton's villainy was Tomowa-Sintow, a lyric soprano with a pure, unforced voice that improved after a somewhat shaky first act; her fateful exchange...
...production is essentially a vehicle for Home, in a title role composed for a castrate. The outlines of Handel's opera are preserved in the plot, which concerns the struggle for the Holy Land between the Crusaders, led by Rinaldo, and the Saracens, under Argante (Ramey) and the sorceress Armida (Soprano Edda Moser). But Martin Katz, Home's longtime accompanist, has conflated the 1711 and 1731 versions, trimming the recitatives, shortening some arias, shuffling others and even adding a duet from Handel's Ad-meto. It may be argued that Katz is only following a convention...
...every day that a raving beauty gets to play a ravening crow. So Actress-Photographer Candice Bergen, 37, hopped at the chance to portray the evil sorceress Morgan le Fay in a three-hour CBS epic due this fall called Arthur the King, based on the Round Table legend. "I was relieved not to play the phlegmatic princess," says Bergen. "I like taking things in my own hands." Or talons. Dressed in a darkly feathered cape and one of the alltime great fright wigs, Bergen as Morgan swoops and plots against her half-brother Arthur, played by Malcolm McDowell...
Halloween came 10 days early Saturday morning as sorceress Sarah Mleczko waved her magic field hockey stick, scoring all of Harvard's goals to bewitch Cornell, 3-0, at Soldiers Field...