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The Opera Lover's Broadway--more aptly named "Kiri Te Kanawa and some others"--is an eclectic mixed bag of composers and singers. The outrageous high C's in Nilsson's "I Could Have Danced All Night" and Sutherland's "Make Believe" will topple you quicker than a hurricane. Cesare Siepi's selections from Kiss Me Kate and London's Old Man River are appropriate and tuneful. Although Eileen Farrell's Carousel arrangements overwhelm both song and singer, she gloriously delivers, with an impressive understanding of the style. Te Kanawa and Carreras, singing excerpts from West Side Story, are beautiful, thanks to Leonard Bernstein's stellar conducting. The light and lyrical pieces Te Kanawa sings with Nelson Riddle's Orchestra seem pleasantly out of place. --Barbara Eisner Bayer