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...BOMARZO by Manuel Mujica-Lainez. 573 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...they part of a kinky Renaissance Disneyland for a bored nobleman or projections of a tortured soul? When he visited Bomarzo, Argentine Art Critic and Writer Manuel Mujica-Lainez opted for the latter. He had, moreover, an odd feeling of having been there before-perhaps in another life...
ALBERTO GINASTERA: CONCERTO FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA (RCA Victor). The violent and voluptuous new opera Bomarzo (TIME, May 26, 1967) demonstrates that Argentina's Ginastera does not let such modern disciplines as serial technique stand in the way of red-blooded musical drama. His concerto is full of mellow drama as well-racing scales, rushing rhythms and suspenseful pauses, after which, sometimes, nothing much follows. Nevertheless, orchestral color is beautifully provided by the Boston Symphony under Erich Leinsdorf, and flashy keyboard fireworks are brilliantly set off by the young Brazilian pianist Joáo Carlos Martins...
Incitement to Matricide. By far the most significant casualty of Ongania's morality crusade, however, has been Alberto Ginastera's Bomarzo, the first important opera ever composed by an Argentine. For a while, Bomarzo was the pride of the government. For its world premiere three months ago, it was exported to Washington, where First-Nighter Hubert H. Humphrey found it "difficult, discordant and different"-although in good-neighborly fashion, he added, "It has distinction." Then, just before the opera's scheduled opening in Buenos Aires this month, Ongania changed his mind and decided that...
...popular decision. Music Critic Jorge d'Urbano, who had panned Bomarzo at its premiere, wrote that by the government's standards, "Dante's Divine Comedy would have to be considered a political libel and Hamlet an incitement to matricide." Composer Ginastera, pointing to the libertine antics of such operatic heroes as Don Juan, the unmarried exploits of Tristan and Isolde, and the sadism of Salome, suggested tartly that the government should have done with it and suppress all operas. Which it might well do if Ongania ever got hold of the librettos...