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...surprise of the evening is Von Heute auf Morgen (From Today Until To morrow), a one-act comic opera being given its U.S. stage premiere. Schoenberg had consolidated his epochal twelve-tone system by 1923, supplanting the traditional seven-note scale with all twelve chromatic tones, which, in various intricate arrangements, became a new basis for melody and harmony. Von Heute, composed in 1929, qualifies as the first twelve-tone opera. It shows off the range of effects that are possible within such a seemingly rigid system: singable lines, comic punctuation in the orchestra, a brief pastiche of Italian lyricism...
...hands. There was Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, premiered in Vienna in 1786 with Mozart himself conducting from the keyboard. There was Beethoven's Fidelio, also first produced in Vienna with the composer presiding, in 1805. From the 20th century there were Salome and Ariadne auf Naxos, the latter premiered in Vienna in 1916 and both composed by one of the State Opera's long line of distinguished directors, Richard Strauss...
...recent years Caldwell has successfully staged Hans Werner Henze's The Young Lord and Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos for the New York City Opera. In the summer of 1974 she conducted and restaged her War and Peace at Wolf Trap outside Washington...
...traditionally is nearly all extra-curricular, was the only area of the arts where performances were consistently good. At the top of the long list of stars were Yo-Yo Ma '76, a phenomenal cellist, and Gerry Moshell, most notably as conductor of the Lowell House opera's "Ariadne Auf Nauxos," in his last year as a Harvard music tutor...
...same pair who created Ariadne auf Naxos--Hofmannsthal and Strauss--also did Der Rosenkavalier. Philip Morehead has assembled some excellent singers for an English concert version (scenes with narration) of Rosenkavalier at the Longy School. Bethany Beardslee and D'Anne Fortunato are singing with two-piano accompaniment. Kenneth Hoffman...