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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

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*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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" 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.

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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,

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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:

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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 .

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