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...fine English translation of the libretto did not help Elisabeth Phinney as Donna Elvira. Her diction in arias was mediocre. She was perfectly clear through the recitative so the problem is obviously not insoluble. She was at her best in Ah, Fuggi il Traditor, a Handelian rage aria complete with dotted rhythms, large interval leaps, and distinct bass line. In the peasant-girl Zerlina's role, Lisbeth Brittain was properly ingenuous and sang with a bright, light soprano voice...
...teaching (an opera class at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music) and hinted at a return to the stage. Now, at 48, she has asked a friend, Actor Raf Vallone, to create a suitable movie role for her. Vallone is working on a scenario for a prima donna's dream -Callas is to play Callas in a movie about Callas. "She is one of the very few great individuals we have in this age of mass leveling," says Vallone. But how can he portray the warm friends and sulfurous enemies in La Callas' tumultuous private life? "That...
Jane Elliott and Center Debbie Woods led the scoring with 13 and 12 points respectively. Betsy Inskeep tallied eight more and Donna Ambrosino added seven...
...story very seriously. He doused it in music that falls considerably short of such masterpieces as Lucia di Larn-mermoor and L'Elisir a" A more, often seeming to be merely a chain of inconclusive finales. Before the ultimate one, though, there are limitless opportunities for the prima donna to cut up and rattle off fioriture...
...Prime Minister from 1922 to 1943 (he was eventually shot by anti-Fascist partisans and then hung by his heels alongside his mistress). When Italian newspapers questioned whether the dictator's widow really deserved more money-plus the return of three Mussolini farms that the government had confiscated-Donna Rachele retorted: "Non facciamo ridere i polli" (literally, "Let's not make the chickens laugh"-meaning "Don't be silly...