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The Citizen, Ottawa, Monday, May 17, 1976

xciting debut

by Ukrainian

‘By Eric Dawson

Partisans of vocal music can be a snobbish lot. If
a recital, however interesting, is given by an
unknown talent under less than ideal conditions i
is avoided like the plague. People stay home, lose a
great deal of pleasure, and feel smug about the
supposed exclusivity of their tastes.

This unfortunate tendency can account, at least
in part, for the pathetic turn-out Saturday night at
Glebe Collegiate to hear Ukrainian mezzo-soprano
Renata Babak make an unusually varied and
exciting Ottawa debut. Having defected from the
Soviet Union while on tour with the Bolshoi at La
Scala three years: ago, she is now rebuilding a
career and a voice that holds immense promise for
the future.

Ms. Babak sings in both the best and in some of
the least endearing styles associated with the Slavic
singer. The flaws are minor, though, when it
becomes apparent that this is one singer from the
other side of the tron Curtain who is not afflicted
vith either a painful wobble or the rusty-nail top
notes familiar from recordings by the Bolshoi and
other Russian troupes.

Her upper register rises without a break into
some of the most beautiful and powerful mezzo
tones this side of the Met. Were it not for fhe
booming lower register, one might have thought the

Ottawa Journal Monday, May 17, 1976

show ‘was

*BIIbHE C/IOBO” — “VILNE SLOVO" Saturds
fire and brilliance of Santuzza's tempestuous aria
from Mascagni’s Cavelleria Rusticana to be pouring
from the throat of a dramatic soprano. |

The only significant flaw is the overuse of the
chest-voice, that dark, menacing sound that imparts
a distinctly masculine quality to a woman's voice.
Callas and Horne have used it to great effect, as
does Ms. Babak, for the most part.

But one fears for the voice when she drags the
tone-wrenching chest sound high into the staff, and
despairs for the memory of Schubert when it is
applied to his An die Musik.

She turns a hymn to art into an erotic love song.
an interesting reversal of the prissy readings given
by most singers, but not quite the happy medium
increased familiarity with the idiom will doubtless
bring.

The singer brought an easy flow of soft, lyrical
lone to the sentimental Asters of Lysenko, and
indeed to all the rarely heard songs and arias from
Lkrainian opera on the program. Musical conside-
rauions are perhaps less important here in discussing
these works than an appreciation of the patriotic
and nostalgic overtones warmly communicated by
Ms. Babak.

One tires after a while of the physical mode of
expression she uses in the old-fashioned opera house
tradition of standing centre-stage and pesticulating

until the exit, but this will undoubtedly puss as she

makes the inevitable progress from concert hall to
the opera stage.

Naturally, a good part of the evening was given
over to the dependable standards of the mezzo
repertoire,

These included the second act aria from Saint-
Saens’ Samson and Delilah, in a rendition more
representative of the lust-crazed Herodias than the
Hebrew temptress —-~ and more successful versions
of the Habanera from Carmen and a_ bright,
marvellously comic Una voce poco fa from The
Barber of Seville.

finally ino my wife and children

y, May 29, 1976

TIME FEBRUARY 16 197%

SOVIET UNION
The Psukhushka Horror

“YP nated with Rerrer the daily pro-
pression af ny degradation. | lost inter-
est in palitees, then in scientific problems.
Afy
speech became Alurred, my memory wors-
ened in the beginning, | reacted strong-
iy tothe sufferings of ather parents Even-
tually | became indifferent My antly
thoughis were of totlets. tehacce and the
bribes to the male nurses to let me ee to
the toilet one more ure Then f hevun te
experience anew thought (| must rement-
ber everything |] see here. 1 told muself
sothat dean tellaboutitatterwards —

Last week Soviet Scientist Leonid |
Plvushch was finally able te tell about
it Sull hesitant in speech. uncertain at
times of his surroundings. the drawn.
chain-smoking Ukrainian mathemat-
clan appeared at a Paris press confer-
ence to discuss both his hfe as a dis-
sidentinthe USSR and his three-year
purgatory in Soviet prisons and mental
hospitals He had been accused of anti-
Soviel acuivilies. namely protesting the
arrests and trials of other dissidents and
publishing his views in saenizdar tun-
derground) publications In whatis now

aclassic Soviet method of punishing dis- .
sidents. Plyushch was interrogated. im-

prisoned and finally sent to an insane
asylum administered by the KGB. the So-
viel secret police His account of his ex-
perience is perhaps the most damning
indictment so far of the way that the So-
viets ry to slifle protest

Plyushch. 37. who sull considers
himself a “neo-Murxist.” was remanded
io the Dnepropetrovsk special mental
hospital in July 1973 after prison doe-

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concert stage with perhaps —_ ‘i y : ra . ae ; vp. 4
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dentials a singer could wish | _" we had 27 ALEC AATEC A FEE Ly Het ds Ca tade ry
to have. Before her defection es gE or oe ; ——- t i 4
to the West, she was a lead- J o A Jy: CEelors haung cova fp wr cat],
ing artist of the historic Bol- | a ~ et atin le?

_ shol Opera Theatre. | on ny Ae /

" She has appeared in the
mafor Opera Houses of The
Soviet Union, Poland, Hun-
gary, Rumania, Germany,
Bulgaria and Finland. Her
performance as Marfa, in the
Bolshoi Opera production of
Khovansbchina at La Scala,
Milan, captivated the audi-
ence and the critical Milan-
ese press in 1973. Since that
time she has been giving con-
certs extensively in the Unit-
ed States and Canada.

One wonders when Opera
lovers will have the opportu-
nity of hearing and seeing
her on stage. Surely The Can-
adian Opera Company should
be aware of her presence. It
is ridiculous that a voice of
this magnitude should be
wasted in high school audito-
riums and her talent enjoyed
only by an enlightened few.

Renata Babak is waiting to
be discovered.

Journal Reyue

By DAVID GALBRAITH

Renata Babak, a truly
magnificent mezzo-soprano,
was presented in concert Sat-
urday evening to the smallest
audience I have ever seen in
The Glebe Collegiate Audito-
rium.

It was a shame.

Miss Babak is not only a
beautiful woman, she is a

beautiful singer. Her voice is
rich and vibrant and her in-
terpretation of the music she
sang was highly dramatic
and inspired. She is a super-
lative artist and those who
attended her concert were
fortunate indeed while those
who did not missed a unique
musical experience,

The program was in three

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caer eset “i

parts beginning with selec-
tions from Schubert, Sibe-
ius, Meyerbeer, Saint-Saens
and Bizet. The second part
included Ravel, De Falla,
Mascagni and Rossini.

In the third part, Miss
Babak sang of her native
Ukraine with a polgnancy
that certainly was not lost on
her audience, There was a

wistfulness in her voice that
Was not mere drama, rather
a longing; which is not hard
fo understand considering
her exile. .

Bina omy nam’atp!
gi fe tier & ae ARE Atay :
PLYUSHCH AT PRESS CONFERENCE oe _ ie y efaait4 TA ATAYS, a fu AAG Wert »
Remembering everything. ep AA pay PORVIEMME ,
tors had diagnosed him as a schizophre- , °

nic. Once there, he recalled last week:

“The horror of the psukdushka [mad- an. o é

house! got to me. There were more pa- ane An
lients than beds, and in two beds shoved pea bees
together | was put in the middle place eset ean G 44
of three. Patients twisted in pain from |
administration of drugs. One of them
had his tongue hanging out. another his
eyes popping. a third walked curved in
an unnatural manner.” y |

Mentally Sick. These more or less Log 2b are tact , Je gtataypre ce Fae eg te
ordinary terrors, however, were less 3 pa a pots ~@. Crbe-
frightening to him than the attempts by Cosaasee wlpe aw, Ve A Aida
doctors at Dnepropetrovsk to convince get a ee eta th aia FG
him that he was mentally sick. “You a °
had toadmit to the doctors thal you were
ill In the beginning, | argued. Then I
came to the conclusion that they were
right.” Plyushch’s cause was taken up {2 wt ? er 3
by Amnesty International, a London- .
based organization that seeks to drama-
tize the plight of political prisoners. The
Communist parties of France. aly and
Britain demanded his release. Presum-
ably. it was in response to pressure from geeurs.
European Communists that Soviet au- Of
inorities released Plyushch from the asy- binwa ¢ en f Bey n oe atie’ heer far -
um last month and let him go into eaile. e .

The day after Plyushch’s press con-
ference. Moscow's Literaturnaya Gazeta , |
printed a derisive rebuttal of his state. - * ++ dy ener
“uONOBIK TIpunn Ptinn 6-ro ment, which suggests that Soviet author-
jamusa nproOynyts epoim npx- [tes knew in advance what he was about
naTHuM KOpa6mem fo @inane- to tell. Dismissing such accounts in the
neil, wio6 ‘ram posnoyuarH West as “dirty gambling on human ltrag-

ra | _«. edies.” the Moscow literary journal de-
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200-pivaa Amepnxancbkol He-

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sanexnoctH. Y Pinanemil who had been locked up in mental hos-
KopoipcbKy PORMHY BITaTH-

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ro Anna no6OvBaTHMyTe y ba-

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