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...required Kirby's Flying Circus (London), a Godzilla-ish sea monster, smoke generators, a wave-making machine, a mobile cloud-carriage and an expert ballet troupe--but the Boston Opera's unfathomable Sarah Caldwell managed to elevate Jean-Phillipe Rameau's mediocre first opera, Hippolyte et Aricie (1733), in its American premiere, to a delightful rococo Juliet of the Spirits...
With an intimate score only partially realized, the opera's impact, while considerable, remained more visual than musical. The production featured not only mechanical gimmicks, acrobats on wires, and lavish costumes, but a well-disciplined ballet company led by Niels Kehlett (of the Royal Danish Ballet) whose executions reflected both great strength and refinement...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). "Masterpieces and Music," with Charles Boyer waxing rhapsodic over art works in the background, while Leontyne Price, Benny Goodman, Ballet Dancer Edward Villella and the New Christy Minstrels perform in the foreground...
...BALLET FOR SKEPTICS (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). This special, filmed in Paris, was choreographed by Roland Petit for his wife Zizi Jeanmaire. Yves St. Laurent designed the costumes...
Yannatos's ballet Oedipus, would probably be all right if it were performed with dancers. It effectively realizes its goal of conveying the kind of discomforting moods one associates with the tragedy of Oedipus. But as a concert piece it doesn't quite make it. It has its moments: an exciting crescendo in the first section, or the sometimes startling rhythmic attacks by the strings. Generally, however, it is disappointing. A few times the strings start a vamp that in most modern composers would lead to a moving buildup. But here the woodwinds sneak in a few insipid, undefined attempts...