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...first, in 1939). The program, co-sponsored by Ms magazine, will be entirely devoted to the works of women composers (see box page 59). In January she will become the first woman ever to conduct at New York's Metropolitan Opera, leading Verdi's La Traviata, starring Beverly Sills. In addition to all this, she is conducting the Pittsburgh, Detroit, New Orleans and San Antonio symphonies this season...
Audiences jaded by the cliches of opera-as-usual have been delighted by Caldwell's frequent and highly plausible new looks at old friends. Violetta in Traviata emerges not as the usual high-class tart with a heart of gold, but as an older woman resigned to her fate. The Druid priestess Norma? An albino, whose white hair and skin made her people think she was possessed and therefore a powerful leader...
...three-week visit. The company brought along stars like Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Home, Adriana Maliponte, Luciano Pavarotti, Franco Corelli and John Alexander, and three of the most popular works in its repertory: Puccini's La Bohème, Bizet's Carmen and Verdi's La Traviata. The stand began with Traviata at Tokyo's 4,000-seat NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai, or Japan Broadcasting Corp.) Hall. With Soprano Sutherland dying rapturously as Violetta and Tenor Alexander showing a cad's remorse as Alfredo, it was one of the brightest in a long line of grand...
...price was too high to hear the Meto, as the Japanese call the visitors. The ticket holders sat still and intent during the opera. Not a late straggler nor a cough marred the concentration. The company had just finished its annual spring tour of the U.S., which featured Traviata, and so the production was in crisp form. Conductor Richard Bonynge slowed up now and then for the singers' benefit, but the orchestra, playing with precision and rich texture, expressed most of the considerable drama in Verdi's score...
...drag me feet first out of there"). She is also loyal to Sarah Caldwell, Kurt Herbert Adler in San Francisco and others who have meant much to her and her career. Her second opera for the Met next year (she will open the season in Siege) will be La Traviata. Sills has persuaded Schuyler Chapin to let the talented Caldwell conduct. No woman has ever conducted a performance at the Met. Says Sills delightedly: "That's a tremendous barrier to break down. And my friend Sarah...