Word: fledermaus
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...general director. The jubilee was at the New York State Theater, in Manhattan's Lincoln Center, before an S.R.O. audience of 2,700. Tickets to the gala benefit went for as much as $1,000. For her last role Sills chose Rosalinda in Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus, the part in which she had made her New York City Opera debut exactly 25 years ago. This night, though, Strauss moved over for Sills. Only the second act was performed, and shortly after Sills embarked on the watch duet with Alan Titus, the stage was de-Straussed. "Beverly!" came...
From the world of dance came New York City Ballet's Peter Martins and Heather Watts and American Ballet The ater's Cynthia Gregory, who fluttered exquisitely through the Fledermaus solo. Placido Domingo exalted Granada. Sherrill Milnes, who spends much of his time playing villains, sang a poetic, almost prayerful Maria. Flutist James Galway. having piped himself on with a penny whistle, dared to play the almost unbearably poignant Danny Boy and, through sheer musicianship, let the beauty, not the tears, flow. Not all the celebrants had to perform. Onstage by the evening's end were many...
...only one in the world who can arrange this event," boasted San Diego Opera Director Tito Capobianco. Indeed, Capobianco's Die Fledermaus was an operatic double play: the first time Queen Coloraturas Beverly Sills, 51, and Joan Sutherland, 53, have appeared onstage together, and the last time Sills will appear in a full-length opera. Of course, few would have considered asking two divas to, Mozart forbid, share the same spotlight. Says Sills: "We still don't know if Tito asked Joan first and told her I had said yes, or asked me first and told...
...color scheme of the Fledermaus ball at Boston's stately Copley Plaza was black and white, but the 400 guests were blue. For the affair marked Bubbles' Beantown finale, the last Boston appearance for Soprano Beverly Sills, who had just sung Rosalinda in the Strauss opera. Sills' white dress balanced Director Sarah Caldwell's black gown, but not Caldwell's mood as she pooh-poohed the notion that Sills would be happy as non-performing director of the New York City Opera. Predicted Caldwell: "Your voice has a voice...