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...Lyric remains a world-class op era house, and its average cast will rival the Met norm. Its secret: a short twelve-week season that welds its cast for brief, intense, festival-like engagements. This season began with Luciano Pavarotti in Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore. Coming up are Jon Vickers in Britten's Peter Grimes and Frederica von Stade in The Barber of Seville. This November the Lyric will mount its first Die Meister singer. For opening night next year, Fox has even hired Broadway Director Harold Prince (A Little Night Music) to concoct...
...shelves of possible Bellini and Donizetti operas must be getting bare; the new trend in vehicles for the box office sopranos may well be little-known French operas. Along with one fragile masterpiece, Manon, Jules Massenet wrote several operas that fit this description. After 87 years, one of them, Esclarmonde, has just made its Metropolitan Opera debut as a vehicle for Joan Sutherland. The title character is a Byzantine Empress with magical powers, and after hearing the music, one can only wish that she had used her sorcery to summon up a different show-Rigoletto, maybe...
...music at least as much as the story on stage. Floyd is ambivalent about his uses of music. He gives Doll a sweet ditty to sing as she makes dolls for two neighbors' children, but in a mad scene she is totally silent. Can one imagine Strauss or Donizetti abdicating their composers' rights at a moment like that...
JUDITH SOMOGI, 34, conducted a performance of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado in March 1974 and became the first woman on the podium of the New York City Opera. Then she warmed up her baton on a dramatically authoritative La Traviata and a breezy production of Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment. Somogi joined City Opera as a coach and rehearsal pianist in 1966. Do orchestras react differently when the maestro is a woman? "When I wore my low-cut dress, there was some notice," admits Somogi. "Well, Zubin Mehta is a very good-looking...
...decent but unspectacular, notable mostly for her sweet laments in Douglas Moore's The Ballad of Baby Doe. She achieved her major reputation with a blinding display of Baroque wizardry 8% years ago in Handel's Julius Caesar. Subsequent years brought triumphs in Massenet's Manon; Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and trilogy of queens, Roberto Devereux, Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena; and more recently, Bellini's / Puritani. Vocal fireworks are Sills' glory. She has a light, lyric coloratura so clear and swift that it seems phosphorescent. Though she is the best Manon around...