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...inappropriate, though. Cadmus (David Gullette '62) and Tiresius (Bashir Salhuddin '98) are both Theban wise men and comic duo. Their stichomythic exchanges even suggests lighthearted pastoral, but both are still capable of a rich gravity. I only thought that Cadmus' portentous admonition to Pentheus (of the fate of Acteon, ripped apart by his own hounds-Cadmus' own great-nephew!) was too droll...
Jean-Phillippe Rameau's Acteon, Les Arts Florissants/William Christie...
...Acteon, the huntsman, breaks from a coppice with two wolfish dogs, one leaping from his thigh, one flying from under his lifted knee...
Diana (an enlargement of an early work, cast in colored terra-cotta) is swifter far than Acteon, for all his speed-outstripping dogs. The wind bends her scarf; her bow is drawn; she looks back...
...Acteon) Auber...
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