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...impressed with the lavish production put on by the Bavarian State Opera which featured Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Soprano Ingeborg Bremert, and they were unanimous in their praise. Said the authoritative Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "Henze has arrived at the point of decision. All the lessons which he learned from Verdi, Berg, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Britten and Weill have been absorbed in his tremendously creative feeling for sounds and his sense of the dramatic." This mixture of old and new, of atonality and traditional harmony, was precisely what Henze was after. It was a synthesis that he had been building...
Stravinsky created a unique form in Odeipus Rex, for its drama has neither opera's action nor the oratorio's formal units. Yet the music is crammed with references to this style or that, to Handel and Verdi, little touches that jar the listener at first but later seem almost ironical...
...this season of Anna Moffo, Eileen Farrell and Leontyhe Price, the Metropolitan Opera last week introduced Manhattan audiences to yet another fine American soprano-Hartford-born Gianna D'Angelo. Soprano D'Angelo, 31, made her debut portraying one of the silliest of all operatic heroines, Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto. But she triumphed over the role with such apparent ease that by evening's end she was firmly fixed as one of the Met's most promising sopranos...
Richard Wagner it was who in his own music sought to make the distinction between opera and what he called "music-drama." Opera was Verdi and those other florid Italians; but music-drama adhered strictly to a text, translating and absorbing it into music...
Turandot differs from Puccini's operas even more than Fal differs from any Verdi work. intended his last opera to effects which never had in him before. He composed a majestic work featuring and very demanding chor and two super-heroes, and the unfeeling Chinese as Turandot...