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...play has fourteen speaking parts. Of these only the two lieutenants Fedotik and Rode are minor (Kahn, in a felicitous touch, has given Fedotik a bit of extra business with his camera at the end of the first act, when Natasha and Andrey kiss). This means that there are twelve vitally important roles, with the subtlest web of interactions...
...Cariou is first-rate as the sisters' brother Andrey, who loses control of the household to his adulterous wife. He gives up his dream of becoming a famous university professor, and contents himself with being secretary to his wife's lover on the local county agriculture committee--a post so petty that he has to bolster his pride by berating a subordinate for not addressing him a "Your Honor," and--like Abe Fortas--seek solace in going off by himself to play the violin. Cariou makes him genuine, well-meaning, and pathetic; and I'd swear he really puts...
...PETERSBURG (310 pp.)-Andrey Biely-Grove...
There is nothing like a ticking time bomb to supply fictional suspense, and perhaps no writer has ever used the device more successfully than Andrey Biely in St. Petersburg, originally published in Russia in 1913 and now translated into English for the first time. Biely (real name: Boris Bugaiev) died in 1934, a political pariah; like Boris Pasternak, he was a Russian who came to see that revolution often destroys more than it creates...
...citizens in a hymn of thanks for victory. The second part also produced the most authoritative acting-and one of the finest voices-in Baritone Kenneth Smith, who played General Kutuzov with sinewy dignity. High point of the opera came in one of the closing scenes, in which Andrey and Natasha were reunited as Andrey lay on his deathbed. Through his delirium he hears a pulsing beat, played in the orchestra by the strings sul ponticello (bow strokes near the bridge), and echoes it over and over again in a faint, falling cry. In one of Prokofiev's most...