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...Palace sat the 88-piece La Fenice Theater Orchestra; on the podium stood the U.S.'s most active musical ambassador to Europe, Manhattan-born Conductor Dean Dixon, 37; on the racks, instead of the usual outdoor fare, was music by modern composers, e.g., Walter Piston, Bernard Herrmann, Benjamin Britten...
British Composer Benjamin Britten was commissioned to write a coronation opera. His subject: the affairs of Elizabeth I and the Ear! of Essex...
Other winners: Bohuslav Martinu's Comedy on the Bridge (best new opera), Benjamin Britten's Spring Symphony (best choral work), William Schuman's Judith (best dance score), Gian-Carlo Menotti's TV opera Amahl and the Night Visitors (a special citation to Menotti...
First-nighters sat through the first act in a ho-hum mood, but the second brought them to life with Billy's fight with one of Claggart's henchmen and Claggart's bitter monologue rejoicing in his own depravity -sung by Basso Frederick Dalberg. Britten's triumph was the third act, in which Captain Vere (Tenor Peter Pears) walks to Billy's door, accompanied by long-measured chords, to deliver the death verdict. When the curtain fell for the act, there were seconds of silence, and then shouts of "Bravo, Benjy." Billy's fourth...
...fifth curtain call, Britten himself edged shyly out of the wings. After him came Forster, beaming benignly, and Crozier. It took 18 curtain calls to satisfy the crowd...