Word: alcestiad
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...operas. He never quite made it, but 50 years later, at 64, Wilder is becoming a handy man-about-the-opera-house: his one-act play The Long Christmas Dinner recently provided the libretto for an opera by Composer Paul Hindemith (TIME, Dec. 29). Now his play The Alcestiad has furnished the Frankfurt Opera with an engaging and unexpected hit of the same name...
...Toccata for orchestra, the oratorio The Divine Flame). Chances are that Music Lover Wilder would never have collaborated with her had he not heard her Alleluia in form of Toccata at a piano recital in New Haven more than ten years ago. Later, when Talma heard Wilder read his Alcestiad at a private party, she "began to hear the music of the opera even while he was reading...
...Alcestiad is Wilder's retelling of the Greek legend of Alcestis, whose devotion to her husband caused her to offer her life for his. Talma's score, which frequently employed the twelve-tone row, was aglow with curving lyric lines but avoided any hint of romantic lushness, was sometimes reminiscent of Stravinsky. The lightly modern music at no point obscured the text, at many points sharply illuminated it, as in a moving second-act farewell duet of Alcestis (well sung by Soprano Inge Borkh) and Admetus...
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