Word: tenoritis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this era it seems a waste for Luciano Pavarotti to undertake such a vehicle, as he did last week at New York City's Metropolitan Opera. The commanding tenor today, he can do a great many things wonderfully well. Some of them, like spinning out a legato line or singing a high C, are displayed in La Favorita. As an actor Pavarotti can be funny or tragic (both in La Bohème), or a careless aristocrat (the Duke in Rigoletto). But with his native wit and musical intelligence, Pavarotti cannot act dumb. Unfortunately, that is required of Fernando, the hero...
...seemed "beautiful but a little scaring" to Italian Tenor Luciano Pavarotti. No, not New York's newest layer of flaky white; rather, he was describing the Metropolitan Opera's first solo recital, which he was about to give at Lincoln Center. His audience: some 4,000 Met patrons plus 12 million public-television viewers. "When opera went to TV," reflected Pavarotti, "people could see it's not so stupid as they thought if it's well done. It's like antique furniture." Come again, Luciano? "You either like...
...collage, is the relation between dance and such other elements of performance as music and decor. Here too the principle of dance-as-dance-only is carried to an extreme. In preparation for a typical performance, Cunningham meets with the composer and designer and tells them the general tenor of the dance, but not its specifics; then all three work separately, combining their efforts for the first time only in actual performance...
...trying to get the girls to go ... well, if not further than they wanted, then at least further than they thought they should. Billy gets right down to business. "Come out Virginia, Don't let me wait/ You Catholic girls start much too late," he sings in his bruised tenor, his memory for details ("You got a nice white dress and/ a party on your confirmation") as sharp as his point...
...Compassion," (an intellectualized version of the Pistols' "No Feelings") Byrne derides artificial complexities in a chilling statement of apathy. "Compassion is a virtue, but I don't have the time," he sings in his hollow tenor; "What are you, in love with your problems?" Not only is Byrne empty, but he despises those who try to fill their emptiness up with phony difficulties...