Word: angelicas
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...drab, provincial English university. Also on hand to suffer the droning speeches and inedible food is Persse McGarrigle, a young Irishman who is a virgin both in the traditional sense and vis-a-vis the brave new world of gypsy scholars. What dazzles McGarrigle most about the proceedings is Angelica, a beautiful and budding literary critic who befriends him but mysteriously eludes his chivalrous advances. Persse muses: "It's as if she had a magic ring for making herself invisible...
...move to the head of the class. Lodge sets his swelling cast of characters into frantic motion across what only looks like the contemporary world; in truth, they move through enchanted old paths out of Ariosto, Spenser and the Arthurian legends. As he takes up the pursuit of Angelica, Persse becomes Percival on the trail of the Grail. For Zapp the quest centers on the newly endowed UNESCO chair in literary criticism, a post that pays $100,000 a year, tax free, and carries no duties whatever...
...recent Pennsylvania Opera Theater production of Orlando Paladino, a work that alternates buffa elements with more serious moments, showed the best reason for giving Haydn's operas a hearing: their scores. To the lovesick knight Orlando (Tenor John Gilmore), crazed by a passion for Angelica, the Queen of Cathay, Haydn gave a stirring entrance that suggests the depths of the mad paladin's emotion. On Angelica (Soprano Randi Marrazzo), he lavished arias in each act that shimmer with dazzling coloratura and touching pathos. And for the finale, he composed a high-spirited, catchy septet that reconciles the conflicting...
Other members of the search committee, which was formed about a year ago, include Glen Bowersock, former Harvard dean and associate of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies, Richard Caves, professor of Economics, Angelica Rubenstein, and official of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and John W. Strauss, a Fogg Visiting committee member...
...much of Orlando's appeal lies in the sheer playfulness with which Sellars has approached it. Where the original staging calls for Zoroastro the magician to conjure up a fountain to hide a furtive lover, Sellar's project supervisor summons up a drinking fountain, from which Angelica casually takes a sip. In the conclusion of the original, when Zoroastro calls for a potion, he receives it from the claws of an eagle descending out of the sky. Sellars's Zoroastro receives his potion in the claws of The Eagle--the Apollo 11 lunar module, that is. (In both cases...