A graceful piece of writing. Remember, Alenier is commenting on a fellow stepping into her terrain, and I believe she does so with generosity, saying "there is enough of everything to go around".
Grace Cavalieri
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I enjoyed reading about this new approach to creating a musical production based on the life of Gertrude Stein. Obviously, she is still inspiring artists! I look forward to cornering Ms. Alenier about her impressions of the new production.
Susan Absher
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The article was helpful. I read it because I was trying to find out how long the opera lasted. "3 hours of dread" was the best I could come up with after 1/2 hour of googling.
John Phillips
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Thank you for this clean and compact capsule of the life of Beverly Sills. She brought love and humanity to a sometimes stilted art form. All you have to do is add her music to this article and you have an important profile of this champion and giant in American opera.
Alvin Roettner
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As usual, Renate Stendhal's review is articulate and engaging. However, I have to disgree with her. I found this performance flat and slow. And I didn't see the all the cross-gender innuendoes that Miss Stendhal so artfully unveiled.
T.S.
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Renate Stendhal's article on "Der Rosenkavalier" was intensely interesting as to the opera's emotional and sexual nuances. Her suggestion of casting a physically attractive singer as Ochs, as a way of shaking up the opera's dynamics, was particularly intriguing, and caused me to think the following: has any opera company ever cast a male countertenor, instead of a female mezzo, in the role of Octavian? I don't even know if this is possible musically (being ignorant of how, or even if, the vocal ranges of mezzos and countertenors overlap), but it's an intriguing concept.
Miles Moore
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I think that it is generous to give the examples of the writing in progress rather than an abstract set of illusions. This is very satisfying it its detail.
Grace Cavalieri
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