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Tenor Franco Corelli is a former Italian rowing champion, while Tenor Placido Domingo tried out as a bullfighter in Mexico. Now Middle Linebacker Paul Glanton, 20, of the University of Minnesota Gophers seems likely to become yet another singing sportsman. Each afternoon these days Bass-Baritone Glanton works out in rehearsals at the university's opera workshop. Cast as Don Alfonso in Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, Paul finds football and opera similar. "If you eliminate the contact," he said, "the performance and the rehearsals in opera are just as strenuous as football." There is another difference...
...soloists, unfortunately, were considerably less impressive than the choir. Both women soloists sang with wobbly gusto, though none too steady in pitch. Tenor Gartside sounded forced and dry while bass Hester, the best of the four, masterfully sang his solo at the beginning of the Agnus...
Adams amassed a huge choir for this concert, including the Collegium Musicum, The Harvard Glee Club, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus. The soloists, all from the Boston area, were Mary Strebing, soprano, Jan Curtis, alto, Robert Gartside, tenor, and Francis Hester, bass. The very fine orchestra included both Harvard students and Boston professionals contracted by concertmaster Robert Brink. Adams led all these forces in an intense and exciting performance...
...eliminated a half-hour's worth of ballet (wisely, considering the Met's declivity for dance) and edited the work down to three acts, running a relatively tidy 3½ hours. Then there were the principal singers: Sopra no Montserrat Caballe, Tenor Nicolai Gedda, Baritone Sherrill Milnes, Bass Justino Diaz. They constituted the kind of front-rank cast that the company does not regularly assemble these days. Nor does the Met orchestra play every day with the snap and precision that it gave Conductor Levine...
...seasoned one is merely brazen. Instead of throwing herself into the proceedings, Carol seems to expend her energy with utmost calculation. Apart from a couple of production numbers, she remains almost stationary and is offstage altogether for the strenuous tap-dance sequences. Even her vocal tricks - going from bass through squeak in breathtaking spoken roulades - now sound like a ventriloquist...