Word: tenors
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...crammed into the Left Bank studio-gallery-theater of America's pioneer Beatnik Raymond Duncan for his 88th birthday blowout. The bespectacled old expatriate, whose pad is almost a photographic shrine to his late sister, Dancer Isadora Duncan, gave them a weirdly nostalgic show. In a quavering saloon tenor he sang My Old Kentucky Home; then, unshorn silver locks and hand-woven toga flying, he launched into a frantic soft-sandal jig. The Dior-dressed segment of the crowd dug it deep. But the modern beats, obviously distressed that no food and no smoking were allowed...
...last week on a new production of Carmen at the Marseille Opera House, the thunderous ovation was so moving that Don José laid his head on Carmen's shoulder and wept noisily. He had good reason. In the previous performance, part of the audience had greeted the tenor with something less than cheers; he had, in fact, been pelted with bunches of carrots, turnips and radishes. Even oldtime Marseille residents could not recall a more enthusiastic operatic riot...
...ambitious production had two curtains, four sets, and no fewer than 265 costumes designed by famed Painter Bernard Buffet. In the title role was the Metropolitan Opera's Regina Resnik, who has sung Carmen all over the world. Don José was U.S.-born Richard Martell, a tenor who once sang with the San Francisco Opera and has built a fine European reputation...
...costumes soon made it apparent that Buffet had succeeded in stripping the usual Frenchified elegance from the opera and restoring some of the wildness of Spain in the 1820s. The 400 or so local fans perched at the top of the house (in "Paradise") began muttering as soon as Tenor Martell sang his first line, started shouting when he nervously hit a clinker...
Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet (Mezzo-Soprano Rosalind Elias, Tenor Cesare Va-letti, Bass Giorgio Tozzi; the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Charles Munch; RCA Victor, 2 LPs). Berlioz' "symphony with chorus" is given a soaring, beautifully proportioned reading by Munch, and all three soloists contribute performances that are almost without flaw. As satisfactory a performance as the work is likely to find...