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...Tempest, being performed for the first time, makes fierce demands on listeners but rewards them with an opera of stark beauty. It may be presumptuous for any composer not named Verdi to set Shakespeare, but Eaton's music passes the test, honoring its source while illuminating and transforming...
...common enough to assert that Mozart was a child of the Enlightenment or that Verdi was much involved with nationalist politics, but is it possible to illuminate such assertions in terms of their music? Or, more interesting, to illuminate their music in terms of their ideas...
...Barber of Seville reflects the post-Napoleonic withdrawal from emotional involvement, and that Schubert's Winterreise and Schöne Müllerin represent the Romantics' concentration on the individual and his relationship to nature. Similarly, he asserts that Berlioz's Trojans dramatizes the 19th century's obsession with history, that Verdi's Don Carlo portrays the conflict between liberalism and realpolitik, that Wagner's Meistersinger illustrates the aesthetic movement's beliefs about art and society, and that Strauss's Rosenkavalier represents the dawning modern sense of psychological...
DIED. ROBERT MERRILL, 87, powerful baritone who was a favorite at the Metropolitan Opera; in New York City. In his 30 years at the Met, he was regarded as one of the greatest Verdi baritones of his generation, singing the title role in Rigoletto many times. Unlike other opera singers of his era, Merrill never avoided the mainstream. He made many recordings, including one of the national anthem that was used for years to open games at Yankee Stadium...
...DIED. ROBERT MERRILL, 87, powerful baritone who was a favorite at the Metropolitan Opera for three decades; in New York City. In his 30 years at the Met, he was regarded as one of the greatest Verdi baritones of his generation, singing the title role in Rigoletto many times. Unlike many opera singers of his age, Merrill never avoided the mainstream: he appeared occasionally in Las Vegas and his recording of the national anthem was used for many years to open games at Yankee Stadium...