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Elfin and Chinese. The Mozart was assigned to Peter Ustinov. Directing a full-length opera for the first time, he tackled The Magic Flute with warnings ringing in his ears. "Some pointed out that it was the most difficult opera of all to stage," said Ustinov. Their point was well...
GEORGE FREDERICK HANDEL was a prodigal master, an adaptive musical fountainhead who composed vast quantities of epic choral dramas, superb operas, incidental and instrumental works. His creative fertility was so prodigious that his 97 volumes of autographs exceed the combined complete works of Bach and Beethoven. Although a contemporary of...
As the week ended, Arias was still in police custody, as was Felix Villamedial, a 32-year-old teacher who donned a poster shortly after Arias set off. There were reports that more encartelados might be appearing soon in other Spanish cities.
Arias, not Action. The most radical of all these works is The Red Lantern, which recounts the heroism of a family in the Communist underground during the war against Japan. Madame Mao has ordered drastic changes for the production. She has banished the traditional Chinese orchestra of wind and string...
At the biennial Canton Trade Fair last week, The Red Lantern was put on for Chinese and foreign visitors and broadcast over Canton television. Also, a truncated version of the work (two soloists, eight arias) has now been made into a 35-minute film for showing inside and outside China...