Word: angot
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...from the introspective 1950s nouveau roman (new novel) movement. Many of today's most critically revered French novelists write spare, elegant fiction that doesn't travel well. Others practice what the French call autofiction - thinly veiled memoirs that make no bones about being conceived in deep self-absorption. Christine Angot received the 2006 Prix de Flore for her latest work, Rendez-vous, an exhaustively introspective dissection of her love affairs. One of the few contemporary French writers widely published abroad, Michel Houellebecq, is known chiefly for misogyny, misanthropy and an obsession with sex. "In America, a writer wants to work...
...Sibelius: Rakastava (Vg); Bach: Two Part Inventions (W); Lecocq: Man'zelle Angot...
...successful ballets, now with the Ballet Theatre. A decade ago Massine churned an esthetic storm with his ambitious, often impenetrably symbolic ballets. Since then he has reverted to the bumptious, exuberant, satirical style of his most admired works (Gaité Parisienne, Three-Cornered Hat, La Boutique Fantasque, Mademoiselle Angot...
...into an orchestra pit, it must be acknowledged that showman Gest's claim to have at length brought "singing actors" to the U. S. has been rather cruelly substantiated. So far the synthesized productions have been Lysistrata (TIME, Dec. 28, THE THEATRE), La Perichole and The Daughter of Madam Angot. On the basis of these sufficiently extensive samples, it may be definitely stated that, while the "singing actors" act with flawless and breath-taking ensemble perfection, they sing quite indifferently, despite the spirited and authoritative conducting of M, Vladimir Bakaleynikoff...
...Daughter of Madame Angot, on the other hand, was pitched in a wholly vivacious and amusing key. It was the first production attempted by the Musical Studio, and in consequence the original French libretto and the famed Lecocq score showed not a trace of M. Dantchenko's later, bolder and almost slashing adaptations in the name of synthesis. The complete versatility of his troupe was proved by the fact that all but one of the leading roles of the piece were played in Manhattan by "singing actors" who had had only minor parts in Lysistrata and La Perichole...