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...between registers. Unfortunately, he is no Bergonzi; Domingo's sound is marked by continual tightness and lack of real ring. Perhaps his singing on unfamiliar French vowels was part of the problem. His acting usually remained typically tenoristic; that is, non-existent. But Domingo's forthcoming reappearance (opposite Renata Tebaldi in the new Boheme) should provide a fairer indication of his talents, as he undertakes a truly substantial role in a congenial language...
...RENATA TEBALDI (London). The diva serena had not recorded for two years, but these nine Italian arias, only one of which she had recorded before, bring generally good news of a still-shimmering voice. Not all the high reaches are easily secured, but her warmth, womanliness and pleading pianissimos are most touching in some of the other roles, notably that of the mother in Cilea's L'Arlesiana singing Esser madre è un inferno...
...midnight the day before tickets went on sale, fans began lining up outside Munich's Bayerische Staatsoper. Was Callas singing? Tebaldi? Sutherland? None of them, but a Canadian-Greek girl named Anastasia Strataki, known in the world of the opera as Teresa Stratas...
...Packin' Mama. At 15, she was singing in Toronto dives. "If you learn to hold an audience of drunks who would rather be noisy, you can surely hold people at the Met who pay to hear you," she says. She saw her first opera at 16, when Renata Tebaldi sang La Bohème's Mimi in Toronto. At 20, she outsang 2,000 contestants to win the annual audition and a contract at the Metropolitan Opera...
...Mimi, which she has sung at La Scala, Mirella Freni, 29, an Italian lyric soprano of talent and beauty, can hold her own with Tebaldi, De los Angeles and Moffo. Her voice is easy and focused, but her particular strength as the little seamstress is her touching youthfulness. Tenor Ni colai Gedda is equally melodious and moving as her lover. Thomas Schippers conducts the Rome Opera House Orches tra and Chorus impetuously but artfully...