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...five Butterflys, record companies have begun to dig for lesser known works. One of the happiest recent finds: Puccini's one-acter, II Tabarro, on an excellent RCA Victor LP. This somberly lyric tale of jealousy, betrayal and murder on a Seine River barge is sung with power and intensity by Baritone Tito Gobbi, Soprano Margaret Mas and Tenor Giacinto Prandelli, strongly backed by the Rome Opera's chorus and orchestra under Veteran Conductor Vincenzo Bellezza. As the betrayed husband, Gobbi magnificently defines-in a voice alternately liquid with longing and rough-edged with rage-the climate...
...view-a selection of 86 Japanese and Chinese paintings, sculpture and ceramics from their collection in Tokyo and Washington, which Freer Gallery Expert Harold Stern enthusiastically calls "without doubt one of the finest private collections in the world." Included were pottery and sculpture from the Han, Tang, Sung and Ming dynasties, a Sesshu landscape, Ashikaga screens, and a primitive warrior sculpture judged by Cleveland Art Museum Curator Sherman Lee to be "one of the finest Chinese clay sculptures in America...
...work proved to be in the 19th century operatic tradition-full of flowing melody, dramatic action, swift scenic shifts from the quiet cloistered walls to the reverberating streets of revolutionary Paris. The opera's most touching scene occurs in Act I, when the Carmelite Mother Superior (movingly sung by Gianna Pederzini) reveals on her deathbed to the sorrowing nuns her fear that God has abandoned her. Aided by La Scala's magnificent sets, the opera builds from that point to a dramatic third-act climax in which Blanche's calm recitation of Deo Patri Sit Gloria...
...music of the first part and the situations that it animated glowed with an almost Latin fervor. Andrey and Natasha (well sung by Morley Meredith and Helena Scott) faced each other across a garden ashiver with moonlight and poured out their yearnings in great warm gusts of melody; Natasha pirouetted giddily at a ball and lacily sang her infatuation with Anatol across the shimmer and sheen of violins. In one magnificent ball scene, a percussive, insistent invitation to the dance ("Dance, dance, dance the waltz") eerily foreshadowed the dance of death that was to come on the battlefields. In other...
...much to explain, if only for the comfort of their own vast bureaucracy. To counter rumors that deep splits were threatening in parts of the old Stalinist empire, friendly delegations from China, East Germany and other Communist countries were already gathering in Moscow. In the praises of Stalin being sung by these delegations, however, there was a dichotomy that would not have been present in Stalin...