Word: tosca
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...course for the presence of Byrne’s Francophone chops. He is joined on the Bizet cover by Rufus Wainwright, another artist from the northeast known for operatic pop. The two singers’ distinctly diverging croons weave in and out of the sounds of Texas’ Tosca Strings, a superb juxtaposition of very different vocal stylings...
...curtain calls that tenor Charles Anthony has taken in his long career, one that he is taking this month has to be the most gratifying. In his role in Tosca at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, Anthony, 74, is being celebrated for having sung for 50 consecutive seasons with the Met, a company record. In Tosca he is reaching his 2,882nd performance with the Met, also a record. "Charlie exemplifies what a Met singer is," says the opera's general manager, Joseph Volpe. "You almost can't believe he's been doing it so long. But you always know...
...life." The remark proved prophetic. Although in his early years he took on a number of leading roles, Anthony became what the opera world calls a comprimario--a singer of supporting roles, a specialist in character parts like the Innkeeper in Der Rosenkavalier and the police spy Spoletta in Tosca. "Sure, I feel some regrets," he says. "It's like Marlon Brando's line in On the Waterfront: 'I coulda been a contender.' But talent isn't handed out equally. It wasn't meant...
DIED. FRANCO CORELLI, 82, powerhouse Italian tenor; in Milan. Largely self-taught, he was faulted by critics for the raw passion in his singing but adored by rank-and-file opera buffs, who gave him bravos for such roles as Manrico in Il Trovatore and Cavaradossi in Tosca. His competitiveness sometimes took a strange form; during Puccini's Turandot at New York City's Metropolitan Opera in 1961, he bit a soprano on the neck because she held a high note longer than...
...immediately followed Kwan, has in the past been too rattled to pull off a winning program in the American champion's wake. Normally a powerful, fast skater who achieves hang time with her jumps, she couldn't dazzle the Olympic judges enough to overtake Hughes. But her performance to Tosca was enough to surpass Kwan, who double-footed a landing on an early jump and then struggled to maintain her confidence in the rest of the program, falling on the later triple flip. "It just wasn't my night," said Kwan again and again. "I don't know what didn...