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...forestall any further squirming, the man on the aisle should know that the young woman next to him is Susanna Hoffs from Los Angeles. Her father and mother met at Yale, where he was a med student and she was studying art. Now her father is a psychoanalyst, her mother a film director, and their daughter, who graduated from Berkeley, is . . . well, currently on tour. As one of the four members of a sensational rock outfit called the Bangles. Who have a new Columbia album called Different Light. Who have an ace single, Manic Monday, written pseudonymously by Prince...
...stage dressed in one of her custom-made Rouben Ter-Arutunian gowns, it is impossible to imagine Battle's ever taking a letter or raising a ruler again. She is an ethereal Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff, a sparkling Zerbinetta in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos and a beguiling Susanna in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, which she will sing at the Metropolitan Opera later this month in a new production by French Director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle...
...late Thomas Schippers, then conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony; he was looking for a soprano to sing Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy. Battle got the job and her career snowballed. In 1976 she made her New York City Opera debut as Susanna. The following year, under Levine's aegis, she also bowed at the Met, in the small part of the Shepherd in Wagner's Tannhauser. By 1980 she was effortlessly hitting the high E's as Blonde in Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio at the Met. She had arrived...
Preparing her roles, Battle applies the hard-work ethic she absorbed as a child. For her forthcoming Susanna at the Met, she has gone back to the Beaumarchais play for hints to the resourceful maid's character. "He says that Susanna has a ready laugh, which tells worlds about her. She can laugh in the face of one complicated situation after another," she notes. But more significant clues are to be found in the music. "Even the music laughs," she says. "When she sings, 'Ding, ding,' in her duet with Figaro, the orchestra goes, 'diddle, diddle, diddle dum,' which...
...very greatest drawings on the Morgan's walls is Rubens' portrait of his sister-in-law Susanna Fourment, a likeness breathed onto the paper with lyric, impalpable precision in three schematic chalks (white, black and sanguine), conveying the fullest sense of Rubens' appetite for character studies delicately balanced between intimacy and formality. Viewing such work, one realizes that there is no Rubens (or Durer, or Mantegna, or Watteau) of / the late 20th century; what we see here are emblems of a tradition that ended, except for footnotes, with Picasso...