Word: supertenor
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...Domingo, he will shut down his professional life for a month or so next May while he follows the World Cup soccer competition with a manic intensity. Later, at the Los Angeles finals, both men will participate in another spectacular supertenor superbowl. At a million a man, it's a sweet way to sing for your supper. And get breakfast...
PARSIFAL. On paper at least, it sings. Wagner's perennial Lenten draw is a specialty of James Levine, music director of the Metropolitan Opera, and for this year's cast, he has united the great Jessye Norman as Kundry and supertenor Placido Domingo in the title role of this new production. Performances through April...
Conceived, at his request, as a starring vehicle for Spanish-born Supertenor Placido Domingo, Goya was given a handsome $1.1 million production by the Washington Opera before an opening-night audience in the Kennedy Center that included Queen Sophia of Spain and glitterati from two continents. It is being broadcast nationally this week on PBS. So far, so laudable...
Well, of course. Amazing no one's thought of it before. Search though one may through the annals of romance it is impossible to find a love to equal that of an opera singer for his throat specialist. And if you have him played by Supertenor Luciano Pavarotti and have her (Kathryn Harrold) played as a capable, no-nonsense sort of woman, uninterested in opera and unimpressed by its big-kid egos, then you have, at least, a package you can get produced, if not exactly a movie the whole world is waiting for. True to the packager...
Freni is familiar to American audiences from several excellent popular opera recordings-La Bohème and Madama Butterfly with Supertenor Luciano Pavarotti, Aida and Don Carlos with Tenor José Carreras, all conducted by Herbert von Karajan-as well as from films of Bohème and Butterfly shown here in 1965 and 1976. She captivated audiences at her U.S. debut as Mimi at the Metropolitan Opera in 1965 with her technical accomplishment and winsome vocal timbre. But Freni's talent still far outshines her American reputation. Her career has been primarily European: between...