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Last week's performance was superb, with Soprano Price handling her warm and lustrous voice impeccably, and infusing the figure of Minnie with a believable passion that might have surprised even Playwright Belasco. Tenor Richard Tucker did an admirable job as Dick Johnson, the silliest role in the opera, and Baritone Anselmo Colzani, the only Italian among the principal characters, swashbuckled through the role of the sheriff like a refugee from Gunsmoke. And although the opera provided few memorable arias (one striking exception: Johnson's "Ch'ella mi creda libero"), it had a score full of surgingly...
Among the six soloists, Robert White (countertenor) and Charles Bressler (tenor) were particularly outstanding--both for technical accomplishment and tact. Especially when singing with the ensemble, they maintained a sense of humility, rising above the group, but never dominating...
...whisky tenor is unmistakable. To the late H. L. Mencken, iconoclastic polemic was the choicer part of criticism. His aim was to high-browbeat "the populace" with a club: to fight American Gothic, Mencken became the great American Goth. All of this, and more, is made pleasantly apparent in two excellent Mencken samplers, in which he plays at two of his favorite roles-music critic and man-of-letters...
...catch Kundry's tempestuous passions more effectively if she does not vocalize before going onstage, thus retaining a certain gutsy quality in her voice. Last week her theory worked just fine: the voice had a raw, fitfully feverish cast, but it never became ugly or strident. Tenor Thomas was less compelling, but he too turned in a good performance-far more vigorous than Bayreuth audiences can expect from more familiar, beef trust-styled Wagnerian tenors. At the curtain, Wieland Wagner paid his two stars a compliment that suggests just how important American talent has become at Bayreuth. "Thank...
...mass choral effects still showed the clear influences of Verdi, Meyerbeer and-particularly-Gounod, whom Bizet considered his master (one 12-bar passage is note-for-note from Gounod's Faust). But under the expert leadership of Conductor Laszlo Halasz, and with a fine lead performance from Tenor Giuseppe Campora, the opera emerged at least in parts as the melodic masterpiece that the French have come to regard it (the Paris Opera-Comique has it in its regular repertory, as does La Scala). Outstanding were the fine tenor aria in Act I familiar to Caruso fans ("Je crois entendre...