Word: algerial
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...Stein proposed a Ring cycle without music. Wagner's next pick, suggested by Boulez, was Chéreau, the current enfant terrible of the Paris stage, whose only previous ventures into opera were an iconoclastic Tales of Hoffmann in Paris and Rossini's L'ltaliana in Algeri at Spoleto. ("You should watch this young man," said Luchino Visconti, director of The Damned and Death in Venice, in 1969. "This...
...band," he said. "Opera is a folk art, like bullfighting and prizefighting." His future repertory, he hinted, would vary standard fare with such works as Berlioz's Les Troyens, Janáček's Katya Kabanova and Rossini's frothy L'ltaliana in Algeri. He also had hopes of sponsoring intimate productions on some separate, smaller stage...
...shower-room Carusos. The real blow, though, was his fund-raising gala, featuring Maria Callas. It sold only 30% of the 4,100 seats in the State Fair Music Hall. On the following night, the company opened with an excellent performance of Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri-and got much the same box office results. Kelly was dumfounded. "The response was so bad," he recalls, "that the only possible thing to do was go right ahead and plan a second season before anybody could stop...
Also, the long standing problem of Algeria's rebellion has ended, with the government's decision to recognize that country's independence. But Algerian independence has brought with it many new problems, such as that of the fate of the French settlers who remain in Algeri...
...third opera put on at Dallas was a repeat of Rossini's rarely performed romp, L'ltaliana in Algeri, introducing 23-year-old Spanish Mezzo-Soprano Teresa Berganza. The possessor of a silvery, dulcet voice, she acted the title role (an Italian girl imprisoned by a libidinous bey) with a kind of fresh, provincial charm. A onetime pianist, Mezzo Berganza has toured Europe in recitals but has had little operatic experience. The Dallas News's Critic John Rosenfield noted that L'ltaliana in Algeri had "ended up as a love affair between prima donna and patrons...