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Show 21)f Salt Calif Sribunc Arts & & Entertainment Section E Sunday, January 19, 1986 Page 1 Martina Arroyo as ADAME BUTTERFLY By Anne Mathews Tribune Staff Writer n 1959. at the beginning of an international career. Martina Arroyo sang in the Salt Lake Tabernacle with the Utah Symphony under Maurice She had arrived here after a discouraging performance in New York and was considering a career change. "Maurice made me want to stay in so you see, Salt Lake (Tty has many rreat memomusic ries for me." Arroyo has sung in Salt Lake City several times since, and has returned to appear in the Utah Opera Company's production of Puccini's "Madame Butterfly," which opens Thursday in the Capitol Theater. It will be her first performance in an opera here. "Coming back is nice because Im coming back with a friend. Glade Peterson, whom I've known for many years," she says. She sang with Peterson, general director of Utah Opera, in the Zurich Opera in the early '60s. "We worked together and I admired his singing very, very much. I think we did Aidas together. Along with Jimmy McCracken, we were the American crowd in Zurich at the time." A veteran of the Metropolitan Opera, Arroyo has taken the past two seasons off in order to sing more roles. "I've been traveling all over the place. I wouldn't have been able to come here if I had been with the Met because they take two months of prime season time," she explains. She will return to the Met in September for its 1986- - 87 season. and accessible, Arroyo is a gracious lady, with none of the formidable stiffness of some divas. Although her usual tone is softly modulated, she resorts to New Yorkese for emphasis. There is no gold lettering on her dressing room door -only a handwritten paper saying Cio Cio San. When her chicken-sandwicdinner is delivered she politely waits an hour until her visitor leaves before eating. She chats easily about her life and dismisses precious fictions about jet-sopera stars. "So many people think this life is very glamorous you wear fur coats and you have diamond rings. But they don't realize that most of the time we see airports, dressing rooms, the stage, the hotel room. We have very little private I Abra-vane- d h life. It's not at all the glamour that people think." And quietly, "I remember one colleague being beautifully dressed, really beautifully dressed with fine emeralds and she said, 'I wish I had some place to go.' That was at the end of her career when she had given everything and she was alone." And loudly, "Well. I'm not going to be that way, you can just forget that. "Nothing hurt me more than knowing Maria Callas died alone. This lady lived for other people's enjoyment. Tebaldi lived for the theater and now she lives alone with her dog. See E-Column 1 qBalletWest -F- EBRUARY 198- 12-2- 2, 6- IN THE CAPITOL THEATRE WITH T HE UTAH SYMPHONY LVtMNGS AT 8:00 P.M. SATURDAY MATINEES AT 2:00 P.M. HOKUSAI SO SUM HAL Mil'll! 200 I SU-Sii- 1 II V Milt ,'iV Nittlt II v toU It ' Ml SI s, lit MI Also tll lit III' SI 1.1 i h u OIHC1 A! DATA! IX OU II l VMS l lit kl l UIIK I I k I 111 ( IaR MIDI lit Kl is IU ID MMI It l 1 1.11s ilt MH I I I |
