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DAVID FOX:  By which I mean if we’re going to invoke her—as virtually every critic writing about the current Funny Girl revival on Broadway has done—that we be frank about it. Yes, she was (and I guess is) a sensationally gifted and spectacularly individual performer. And no—I did not see her in Funny Girl on stage. But there’s ample evidence to suggest that electrifying as she could be, her performance, always mannered, quickly grew quirkier and less disciplined. By the time William Goldman wrote about her in The Season, his point of comparison was Jerry Lewis, one I’ve heard from others who saw Streisand late in her run. But even at the beginning, Streisand bent Jule Styne’s score to suit her, rewriting the melodic line and virtually throwing the rhythms out the window. It was already notable in the original cast album, and egregious in the film soundtrack four years later. You may love what she does—in some moods, I do, too. But there’s quite a lot to be

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Building a Classical Music Collection

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Number 31 on the Building a Collection survey is Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni.  The full title of the opera is Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni translated as The Rake Punished or Don Giovanni.  It is the fourth opera on our list, and the second opera by Mozart (the first being The Magic Flute).  Don Giovanni (1788) is in two acts with a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, the same librettist Mozart worked with for The Marriage of Figaro (1786) and Così fan tutte (1790).  The opera is considered a “dramma giocoso”, or a comic drama and is based on a Spanish play from 1630 by Tirso de Molina about a libertine (Don Giovanni a.k.a. Don Juan), the name of the original play was El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra, variously translated as The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest or The Seducer of Seville and the Stone Guest or The Playboy of Seville and the Stone Guest.

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