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...speaker is not a madman, nor is he running a fun house or shifting the population of a prison across a body of water. He is Chris Mahan, executive stage manager of the Metropolitan Opera, unwinding after a rehearsal of Berlioz's Les Troyens, the crown jewel in a season beset by financial and artistic problems. First performed last fall [TIME, Nov. 5], it is back again this month. The eleven performances are the first ever in New York City, and the work has been staged only twice previously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Win for the Trojans | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

Holmes took down his violin and played an air that fortunately our guest did not recognize: Berlioz's March to the Scaffold. Then he brightened. "I have but one motto, Watson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Sherlock Holmes: The Case Of the Strange Erasures | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

...BERLIOZ: LA DAMNATION DE FAUST (Philips, 3 LPs). Conductor Colin Davis' exemplary latest chapter in the resurrection of Hector Berlioz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Year's Best | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

...Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, with Nicolai Gedda, Jules Bastin, Josephine Veasey (London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Colin Davis conducting; Philips; 3 LPs; $20.94). This work exists on one of the composer's loftier plateaus of the mind rather than on a workable theatrical level. Thus Damnation is in many ways especially well suited to armchair listening. Continuing his masterly unprecedented series devoted to Berlioz's major works, Davis again conducts with suave professionalism and lightning-like flashes of insight and revelation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pick of the Pack | 12/24/1973 | See Source »

...production, conceived by Stage Director Nathaniel Merrill and executed by Set Designer Peter Wexler, has its curious faults. For example, Merrill has unaccountably confined Dido and Aeneas to a bedchamber when they should be strolling under the stars while singing Berlioz's interpolation of "In such a night as this" from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. In most other respects, the production is a visual extravaganza that at long last brings the Met fully into the 20th century. Rear slides and film vivify all the big moments, from the fall of Troy to the lovers' amorous romp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Epic at the Met | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

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