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...Umbrian hills opens with a new production of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde staged by Gian Carlo Menotti, whose approach to the opera is "romantic," and who intends to stress its "erotic and youthful theme." Other highlights: noon chamber music, a triple bill of Avant-Garde Composer Luciano Berio's Laborintus II, Goffredo Petrassi's Estri and Henry Pousseur's Response...
...thing in the standard repertory, but Cathy prefers to specialize in avant-garde music. Impressed by her ability to mix bel canto with barks, grunts, moans and sighs and to compete vocally with tape-recorded noises and electronic beeps, such experimental composers as John Cage, Sylvano Busotti and Luciano Berio (her estranged hus band) have helped make her the undisputed diva of the daring (TIME, Oct. 4, 1963) by creating pieces for her. Currently, she is fluttering far-out circles by doing something unusual even for her - singing Beatle songs...
After rippling off a new recording in Cologne (mostly Stravinsky), Cathy got home to Milan in time to welcome her new record of Berio's Circles and Sequensa Ill, and to prepare for next week's Contemporary Music Festival at Geneva. There she will do her own composition Stripsody, an unaccompanied vocal fantasy based on themes from the comic strips. Sample lyrics: "Arrgy . . . Gulp . . . Good grief! . . . Blam . . . Blam . . . It's Superman...
...Jones as the narrator, Alan Titus as Tancredi, and Evelyn Mandac as Clorinda all sang excellently, although some of Miss Mandac's entrances were a little breathy (possibly because she had to sing them while dying). The instrumentalists (string quartet, double bass and harpsichord) under the direction of Luciano Berio put life and warmth into a potentially very dull score...
...Berio's Passaggio had an immediate and ferocious impact which the stylized manner of the Monteverdi could not even approach. The multilingual text was mostly unintelligible, but apparently Passaggio portrays the "passage" of a single character, called "She," at odds with and seemingly at the mercy of a heartless and mindless society, represented by choruses next to the stage and at the sides of the house. The hostility of the chorus was evident from the moment its opening hisses, murmurs, and shouts began to fill the darkened theatre, while both Her helplessness and humanness came through largely from Miss Mandac...