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Audiences jaded by the cliches of opera-as-usual have been delighted by Caldwell's frequent and highly plausible new looks at old friends. Violetta in Traviata emerges not as the usual high-class tart with a heart of gold, but as an older woman resigned to her fate. The Druid priestess Norma? An albino, whose white hair and skin made her people think she was possessed and therefore a powerful leader...
...popular works in its repertory: Puccini's La Bohème, Bizet's Carmen and Verdi's La Traviata. The stand began with Traviata at Tokyo's 4,000-seat NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai, or Japan Broadcasting Corp.) Hall. With Soprano Sutherland dying rapturously as Violetta and Tenor Alexander showing a cad's remorse as Alfredo, it was one of the brightest in a long line of grand Met opening nights...
...Violetta by Erich Hölle. 39 pages. Harvey House. $3.95. A svelte Belle Epoque horseless carriage rolls down through the century, from snug childhood as a famous racer to old age in a vintage car museum. Automotive anthropomorphism at its most arch, but well preserved...
...Bjorling. As an actor, he is manly, confident and capable of the kind of tender gestures that can thrill girls on both sides of the footlights. Four years ago, in a New York City Opera Traviata, Domingo inspired audible sobs all over the house when he carried the dying Violetta (Patricia Brooks) around in his arms like a baby. Says the still impressed Brooks: "Now every soprano wants to sing with Placido...
...performances. During its 45-week season, the Utah Civic Ballet plays to an audience of more than 90,000. Like many regional troupes, the Cincinnati Civic Ballet, which has 475 students presently in its school, imports such stellar guests as the New York City Ballet's Violetta Verdy and Edward Villella. It is only fitting. As part of a vast farm system for the larger companies, Cincinnati supplied Balanchine with his reigning ballerina, Suzanne Farrell...