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...Cerquetti, 26, has one of the most sumptuous voices to soar out of Italy since Tebaldi. Large-volumed and agile of voice, she scored her first major success in Bellini's Norma at Verona four years ago, has since become a widely acclaimed guest singer of the standard Verdian repertory. Her voice has appealed to most critics as a cross between Tebaldi's "silky elasticity" and Callas' bite and thrust. Big-boned and fleshy-faced, she has been most often criticized for carrying too much weight to put across the dramatic illusion her roles call for. "When...
...with the King of Spain, an old grandee, and the woman who is desired by all of them. Amidst a welter of prayers, supplications, pageants and credos, nothing occurs resembling a human relationship. Similarly, the score, composed when Verdi was 30, sounds like a not very funny satire of Verdian music that put listeners in mind of the gaudy decorations on an old merry-go-round...
...composer, Floyd has a Verdian flair for extracting the last drops of dramatic juice from many of his scenes. In the revival meeting, Susannah's dramatic pin nacle, the congregation sings a realis tic back-country hymn while Evangelist Blitch (Bass-Baritone Norman Treigle) rants in the foreground, and the music gradually transmutes and builds to shat tering climax. On the other hand Composer Floyd is sometimes seduced from the true path by his own melodies, nota bly when he sets Susannah (Soprano Phyllis Curtin) to singing the intermina ble verses of a pretty, folk-song-like lament just...
...creature knew it. Again, in republican Barataria, he puts down the mighty from their seat; and "ambassadors and such as they grow like asparagus in May, and dukes are three-a-penny." But the music, the whole atmosphere of the piece, is a different matter. It is flowing, Verdian, Rossinian, lightly serious, made of Latin lyricism, not of English lung-power...