Word: appollo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...again stood out for the sheer professionalism of his performance. There was, however, a certain unaccustomed tightness in his production which did not, in the end, mar the overall effect. Also featured were Allan Haley, tenor, Donald Meaders, baritone. Martin Kessler, baritone, an excellent sextet in Webbe's "Glorious Appollo," and Phil Kelsey doing several prodigious "swoops" in the Poulenc...
...choruses throughout are well directed, well spoken and graceful. Care has been taken with details in the casting. Appollo and Athena (Joel Martin and Anne D'Harnoncourt) look like gods, towering over the mortals on the stage...
Still the Kirkland players do well by Euripides in presenting an Orestes which becomes sardonic and satirical. When Appollo arises to save the assembled from destruction in the burning house of Atreum, the deus ex machina is not a convention but a joke; it's almost as if the Glorious Messenger has come to the rescue of Mack the Knife. The disparity between real and ideal which is developed throughout, the absence of any solution to the general corruption, is neatly brought home by Guzzetti's staging of a totally unconvincing resolution...