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Rare Verdis Get Star Treatment |
| Section: THE ARTS / MUSIC |
| Author: Philip Kennicott |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 3/1/1994 |
| Size: 1,346 Words, 8,295 Characters |
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The Metropolitan Opera devoted two of its new productions this season to superstar tenors Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti, both of whom are celebrating their twenty-fifth anniversary with the company. To each was given a little or lesser known opera of Verdi: Domingo undertook the title role in Stiffelio, and Pavarotti sang the lead tenor role of Oronte in I Lombardi aila Prima Crociata. The latter work, the lesser of the two musically and dramatically, is ironically the better known. It has been produced by the New York City Opera in recent years and has the distinction of being the first of Verdi's operas performed in the United States. Stiffelio, however, was for most operagoers completely unknown. The work has been produced in New York before-by the small New York Grand Opera in 1976-but it has had little exp...
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...oining the socalled second tier of Verdi's canon, alongside works such as Luisa Miller, Simon Boccanegra, and La Forza del Destino. At the Met it transcended its ostensible purpose-as a vehicle for Domingoin a way I Lombardi did not. One hopes that not only the Met will revive it frequently, but other opera houses will stage the work, rethink it, and help nudge it into the operatic mainstream.
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