Word: ariosto
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...hedonistic groundhog day" is how director Justin Way describes Handel's 1735 opera Alcina, and a week from the opening of Way's new production for Opera Australia, Ariosto's epic tale of a sorceress who casts a succession of spellbound lovers into stone is undergoing its own seemingly endless repetitions on the Sydney Opera House stage. It is Act Three in a technical run-through, and as Alcina's enchanted isle crumbles around her, there are the usual technical tweakings of an opera that lives and dies on the strength of its illusion: the elaborate sets seem to have...
...Kiss Me Kate might be subtitled 'The Taming of the Show.' Based on the Broadway musical based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, which was based on an Ariosto comedy based on an old folk tale, the picture is pretty far off any kind of base ... The plot, a musical within a musical, with its noisily surreptitious shifts from onstage to off, appears just too heavy and elaborate a vehicle for the camera to prod along. Even so, if other performers had spread the wings of song as grandly as Howard Keel (Petruchio), the picture might have been better...