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...spacious La Boheme from 1981-82 and his Tosca, for which Rome was rebuilt, two seasons ago -- also have marooned their casts in movie sets. Presto: singing pygmies. Now comes this extravagant Fledermaus with singers who become a backup chorus to the brocade and the woodwork. Rosalinde (Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa) gets lost in the crowd during Orlofsky's drinking party in Act II, and the vengeful Dr. Falke (Baritone Michael Devlin) blends nicely with the patterned wallpaper and the potted ferns...
Musically, the performance is just as diffident. No matter how often heard, the melodic freshets and torrents of Strauss's score should always flow, but under Conductor Jeffrey Tate's charmless time beating, even the famous waltz proves resistible. Te Kanawa displays her shimmering voice to some advantage in the first act, then fades away. As the bubbly chambermaid Adele, Soprano Judith Blegen is unsure of pitch and unsteady of tone, while Baritone Hakan Hagegard inappropriately plays Eisenstein as a staggering buffoon...
...MOST SUCCESSFUL MARRIAGE That of Giacomo Puccini and Kiri Te Kanawa; his music and her voice gave A Room with a View the year's loveliest sound track...
Returning players to watch: Keiron Bigby(QB), Walt Cataldo (FS), Rick Collett (OG), DaveFielding (WR), Mark Kachmer (CB), Jeff Watts (DE),Pete Zidlicky (TE)Week 8: Massachusetts
Returning players to watch: Rich Comizio(HB), Jim Crocicchia (QB), Dexter Desir (DT), JimFangmeyer (DB), Jeff Fortna (LB), Brad Heinz (SS),Brent Novoselsky (TE), Ken Saunders (WR)Week 10: Yale