Word: tenoritis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baring his heart, the tenor sang, "Laga baba lagaga banuna." Moved, the soprano tenderly replied, "O gaga o gaga." Her expression of love reduced the tenor to turtledove coos: "Oc curru curru curru curru curru...
This was not what happened four years ago when the "opera" had its first stage performance in Mannheim. Then the audience reacted wildly almost as soon as the curtain rose. Emitting open vowel sounds, the tenor sang: "AUAUAUAUAU a U A U." Outdoing him, the bass boomed, "U UE U UE," only to be interrupted by a chorus which periodically burst out with "Agatta-Gatta-Gatta." These sounds so unnerved the Mannheim audience that it responded with heartfelt "pfuis!", and an incensed reviewer described it as possibly "the worst opera ever written." By contrast, some Berlin spectators last week...
...favorites: Pickin' 'Em Up and Layin' 'Em Down, 42nd Street, My Funny Valentine. The bass wove its low melodic line against the woodsy, paper-dry clarinet sound, the guitar attacked as solo rather than rhythm instrument. Sometimes Jimmy had five instruments (he played tenor and baritone sax and clarinet) shuttling in a complicated web of converging and diverging solo sounds. Of his own compositions, Gotta Dance proved to be a happy, hopping number marked by the husky noodling of Giuffre's sax. The Train and the River opened with the rhythm...
...rock-sure control. He attacked at a slower than usual tempo, underscored the sensuous quality of the music without letting his orchestra wallow in it. There were the usual first-night flaws. During the second-act love duet, the word über-mächtig "vanished without trace" from Tenor Wolfgang Windgassen's memory. With a series of semaphore cues that almost sent him clambering on the stage, Sawallisch brought order out of chaos while Soprano Birgit Nilsson improvised for several measures. But the third act went off with well-oiled precision, and the audience responded with cheering, stamping...
...track tape recorders, loudspeakers, amplifiers and oscillators. With promotion and distribution costs, Victor figures to sink $250,000 in Butterfly with a relatively unknown cast of young singers headed by Philadelphia-bred Soprano Anna Moffo, $250,000 in Tosca, which features such established names as Soprano Zinka Milanov (Tosca), Tenor Jussi Bjoerling (Cavaradossi), Baritone Leonard Warren (Scarpia...