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These words of sage advice, sung to her mirror image by the aging Marschallin in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, are largely ignored by grand-opera stars. But to 61-year-old German-born Soprano Lotte Lehmann, who for 25 years sang them with unsurpassed eloquence, they have long had the weight of dogma...
...years at the Met with a switch on the oldest gag in opera: "If I don't miss the swan boat in Lohengrin Thursday night, it will be my goodbye to the Metropolitan . . ." After the performance he said, "Not only as Lohengrin but as Lauritz Melchior, I have sung my swan song . . ." His fans gave him a warm ovation and tearful dressing-room farewells...
...bambuco has a long history in the Colombian countryside. For 100 years, the backlanders of Boyaca and Tolima have danced and sung it with little heed from bogotanos or anybody else. The boyaquenses, a mournful sort, usually sing of the cruel landlord, the icy mountains, the deceived husband. The tolimenses more often compose their songs about their burros, canoes, crops, or sweethearts. Straw-hatted, sandal-shod, machete-lugging mountaineers flirt as they dance to the music. Their girls, swaying and whirling with lifted skirt, respond coquettishly to each advance...
With Katharine Hepburn as Rosalind, As You Like It is now tried again, and for a while does nicely. Its gaily dressed figures, prettily painted landscapes and well-sung songs give it rather the graceful air of a masque. The quickly shifting scenes at the start give it movement. But once it enters the Forest of Arden, where the scenery stays put and the story refuses to, the charm wears ever more thin. All the world loves a lover, but not everybody loves eight in one play-particularly when they include Audrey and Touchstone and Phebe and Silvius with their...
Deep & Woolly. Although his parents were Russian immigrants, Montreal-born George London (real name Burnson) knew no Russian, never needed any until the Vienna Opera assigned him his biggest role. Last month, after studying hard, he sang a fine Boris Godunov-in the first full-dress performance ever sung in Russian by an American. It was his biggest hit yet. Even Vienna's senior critic, Heinrich Kralik, had to concede: "He is not yet Chaliapin, but he's very remarkable...