Word: verdis
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...more than 40 summers the Glyndebourne Festival has set its own particular standards of impeccable musicianship and demanding dramatic style, displayed in its tiny (795-seat) opera house, like a masque in a princeling's private theater. The current season opened this month with a production of Verdi's Falstaff scaled to human size; Glyndebourne proves to be the perfect setting for the limpid musical economies of the composer's final opera...
...again. It is an enviable role that allows the soprano to die more than once, and the limpid-voiced Karen Hunt makes the most of it. But it is the men who dominate Poe, as they do in operas like Otello and Don Carlos by Argento's idol, Verdi. Tenor George Livings (Poe) and Baritone John Brandstetter (Griswold) go at each other with sonorous hatred...
...demented hero Dom Pedro places the cadaver of his true love Ines on the throne and declares her queen. Stage Director Tito Capobianco has conceived a stunning production that conveys most of the libretto's horror. What is called for musically is the power and sweep of a Verdi, or the psychological insight of a Moussorgsky. Pasatieri Instead has written in a bland, old-fashioned style that might be suitable for an O. Henry short story- say, The Gift of the Magi. Easy as it is to listen to, Pasatieri's music simply fails the text...
Radcliffe Choral Society joins in concert with the Glee Club of the University of Virginia to sing Verdi, Brahms, Schutz and Caplet. Priscilla Chapman, conductor. St.Paul's Church...
...staging of the ambitious new production of Aida, introduced a fortnight ago, turned out to be dull and far too stylized, but musically it was exciting. The Triumphal Scene was a staggering series of orchestral and choral climaxes. The Nile Scene, that exotic musical fantasy conjured up by Verdi to heighten the opera's denouement, shimmered with color and mystery...