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...rosee a dramatic as well as a technical triumph. It was perhaps the most wildly applauded moment of the present Met season-a season made somewhat lackluster by several dull, slack productions but rendered memorable by what seemed like a new age of brilliant singers, most notably Birgit Nilsson, triumphant in Turandot, and Soprano Price herself...
Remembering the Carnegie Hall audition, Herbert von Karajan invited her in 1958 to make her European debut with the Vienna State Opera in Aïda. Since that triumphant evening, Leontyne and Von Karajan have enjoyed a kind of mutual-admiration pact. After Vienna, the road went speedily upward. In 1960 she walked through the stage door of La Scala (she had vowed never to enter as a tourist) and made her debut, again in Aïda, without a single stage rehearsal. "After all," she says, "what's the problem? The Nile can only be upstage." The crowd...
...great new hone seemed to have dawned for the English-speaking theater. None of Fry's other plays (A Phoenix Too Frequent, Venus Observed, The Dark Is Light Enough) matches Lady in language and, particularly, in dramatic coherence. But even at his weakest, Fry has led a triumphant one-man parade against the modern theater's main movements. Where virtually all other playwrights were committed to realism or surrealism. Fry wrote romantic and imaginative drama; where poetry had been banished from the stage so severely that even T. S. Eliot toned his verse plays down to almost imperceptibly...
...insists on her innocence in l'affaire Gouffe and puts to rout all of Policeman Goron's neatly assembled evidence. Protectors rise on every side: prominent lawyers, wealthy men, the demonstrating street mobs of Paris and Marseille. Her luckless partner goes off to the guillotine, but triumphant Gabrielle is freed, and sails for the U.S. with a dazzled financier named Carapin...
...side of the Fantasy resembles the dominant tone of the Variations: insistent, clangorous declamation. Since this percussiveness is always transparent and shrewdly manipulates the piano's tone colors, it avoids bombast or irritating din. Declamation forms the backbone of this far-ranging piece through two motives that recur with triumphant resonance, one a defiant, metallic rattle of repeated notes, the other a thunderously rhetorical passage, of two lines roaring together from the outskirts of the piano. The responsive ear will delight in the grating dissonances and, what's more, it will do so even more after repeated listening...