Word: womens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ruggero Raimondi's Don is a middle-aged, thin-lipped, white-faced sadist, a man more easily pictured flogging cats than seducing women. Raimondi fits in well with Losey's class-conscious interpretation of Da Ponte's text--he sees Don Giovanni as the consummate self-indulgent aristocrat. There's nothing wrong with coloring the opera this way, but Raimondi and Losey paint over and obliterate the other half of Don Giovanni's character, the youthful embodiment of unbounded energy who mesmerized the romantics. They do Mozart and Da Ponte an injustice by simplifying the libretto's psychological tangle...
...other roles run from the accomplished but not overdone leporello of Jose van Dam to Kenneth Riegel's wooden Don Ottavio. Among the women, Kiri Te Knawa's Donna Elvira stands out as the most musically agile and dramatically subtle. Edda Moser afflicts Donna Anna with an unfocused voice and the worst of operatic mannerisms--especially ludicrous with instant translation in English subtitles. She shrieks and sways--the subtitle reads, "I'm fainting." She shrieks once again and staggers to embrace a marble column--"I'm dying...
Elizabeth Ann Swift '62 is one of two women hostages still held in the U.S. embassy in Iran, a close friend of hers confirmed yesterday...
...friend added that the Swift family thinks the Iranians did not release Swift because a news organization unofficially listed her as a hostage shortly after the militants decided to free the blacks and women. Thirteen of the 62 hostages returned to the United States late last week...
After last season's disastrous 1-8 finish, the women's varsity swim team admittedly has no place to go but up. And according to all indications, its record should improve dramatically...