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...VOICE OF AFRICA (RCA Victor) is Miriam Makeba, late of South Africa and also dispossessed. The music here is not only African: there is a taste of gospel, a pop tune and even opera (the Willow Song from Otello). Makeba can manage them all, but her heart is in the songs of her own people, like Ohude and Uyadela. "When all the beasts of the earth had gone to fetch their tails," she sings in Zulu, "the rock rabbit had long given up all hope, hence the absence of his tail...
...GINE CRESPIN (Angel). Soprano Crespin has the distinction of being both the finest operatic voice of France and one of opera's leading Wagnerians. Here she sings arias from Tannhüiuser together with Verdi's Otello and Il Trovatore, Rossini's William Tell and Berlioz' Damnation of Faust, and seems equally at home in all four styles and all three languages...
...heightened and intensified," and he demands that singers produce it as if they were inventing both words and melody in dramatic conversation. His production of The Magic Flute is the current classic, and no opera house can respectably ignore the standard that Felsenstein set with his Traviata, Bartered Bride, Otello and Tales of Hoffmann...
Voice of Firestone (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Highlights from Verdi's Otello, with Tenor James McCracken, Soprano Gabriella Tucci and Baritone Robert Merrill...
...McCracken will sing his Otello nine more times this season in New York and on the Met's seven-city tour. On March 23 the performance will be broadcast, and on April 7 McCracken will sing two arias and two duets from the opera over ABC-TY's Voice of Firestone. He is quite content to let Wagnerian heroes' roles await him while he plays out his fascination with Otello. "I love Otello." he says. "It's done so much for me that I'd hate to say another is my favorite role. Putting...