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...typical day in the life of James Levine (rhymes with divine). Anything can go wrong at the Met. It can involve a problem today, tonight, tomorrow, next year or 1978. Last week Beverly Sills had to bow out of La Traviata on a few hours' notice because of the flu. That was easy: Rita Shane, her cover, was standing...
...Metropolitan Opera has been putting on La Traviata with regular success ever since its first season...
Still it was not a perfect Traviata. Created nine years ago by Director Alfred Lunt and Designer Cecil Beaton, this production has Violetta's bedroom looking like a barn in winter-something Walt Disney might have conceived in homage to Charles Addams. Because the windows are so high and remote, the poor girl cannot even get to the win dow to watch the revelers in the last act. The current stage director, Fabrizio Melano, has not really resolved all the old problems: the Baron's challenge to Alfredo in Act III, for example, comes off much too tame...
...manuscript because so much in opera happened before the age of photography, when music copying began to be a more exact science." That kind of reverence for the printed notes does not keep Caldwell from having a little fun now and then. In the party scene from her 1972 Traviata, the champagne corks were popped in time to the music. Her 1973 Daughter of the Regiment found Sills onstage slicing potatoes on the beat as she made chicken Marengo. That left the howling audience unprepared for the delivery of the next ingredient-the brandy-by a St. Bernard...
JUDITH SOMOGI, 34, conducted a performance of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado in March 1974 and became the first woman on the podium of the New York City Opera. Then she warmed up her baton on a dramatically authoritative La Traviata and a breezy production of Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment. Somogi joined City Opera as a coach and rehearsal pianist in 1966. Do orchestras react differently when the maestro is a woman? "When I wore my low-cut dress, there was some notice," admits Somogi. "Well, Zubin Mehta is a very good-looking...