Word: tenore
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...should have been called Verdi's Radames instead of Aida. Never mind that more important roles are assigned to the eponymous soprano heroine and her mezzo nemesis, Amneris. In San Francisco last week, the attention and the money (up to $750 for scalpers' tickets) was on the tenor. Of course, the man who was singing Verdi's Egyptian captain for the first time in his career was no ordinary performer: it was the portly mink-coat model, frequent guest on the Tonight show, American Express-card pitchman, would-be movie star and, these days, part-time primissimo...
...plus 3,000 more Pavarotti fans, watching a closed-circuit broadcast in a nearby auditorium, as well as live-television viewers in Germany, Austria and Spain-saw and heard him struggle unsuccessfully against the vocally ungrateful requirements of Radames. Not content with being the world's foremost lyric tenor, Pavarotti in recent years has been moving into the heavier spin to repertory, forsaking the Lord Arthur Talbots and Tonios of Bellini and Donizetti for roles that call for weightier, more declamatory singing-Enzo in Ponchielli's La Gioconda, for example, and Riccardo in Verdi's Un Ballo...
Judith F. Olson, a member of the house planning board, called the decision a philosophical one and based it on "the tenor and kind of people in Cambridge." However, another member of the board said that the small size of CCH and a desire not to make a decision which might be interpreted as unpatriotic and alienate certain members of the community also influenced the board's decision...
...five years has become one of the world's leading string quartets--playing a program of Beethoven, Puccini, Stravinsky, and Debussy. Later concerts in this six-part series will feature performances by the New York Vocal Arts Ensemble, pianists Michael Borskin, Noel Lee, and Andrew Rangell, and the tenor Rolf Bjorling...
...titular heroine, sexy Soprano Anja Silja was in rare form, her powerful, dramatic voice fully under control. Tenor William Lewis, the narcissistic lover Sergei, was preening and selfabsorbed, his voice strong and true. Most impressive of all was Conductor Calvin Simmons, 31, who threw himself into the music with the single-minded intensity it requires, fanning the opera's central fires to white-hot incandescence...