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...places as far apart as Alaska and Arizona. But it is in the cavernous War Memorial Opera House of the parent company that Adler has really made a showing. He presented the first major U.S. stagings of such operatic landmarks as Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten, Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Berlioz's Les Troyens. He was the first to put such now celebrated Europeans as Birgit Nilsson, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Geraint Evans on the American stage. He has also led in giving major roles to relatively unknown U.S. singers, among them...
...London Sunday Express called her "the lady nobody loves," and the Sun declared: "She is the most unpopular woman in Britain." Edward Britten, the general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, has said that her policies are "producing chaos." To former Laborite Education Minister Edward Short, she is a "national disaster." In playgrounds, children taunt her for cutting off their free milk by chanting: "Mrs. Thatcher, milk snatcher...
...constituted almost 20% of the Soviet official community in Britain. That community had grown steadily-from 138 in 1950 to 550 as of early last week. The British had tried to limit the number of Soviet diplomats, particularly in 1968 after a Royal Air Force technician named Douglas Britten was sentenced to 21 years in prison for passing secret military information to the Soviet embassy's cultural counselor. London then ordered the embassy to keep its staff to no more than 150 officers. But the only noticeable result was that the size of the Soviet trade delegation and other...
...young ancestor of Owen's was killed by his father for refusing to fight a friend. Limitations of time and space virtually dissolve as the camera crosscuts between-or juxtaposes on a split screen-characters who are in fact separated by days and miles. This enabled Britten to compose duos and other ensembles that would have been impossible on the stage. Time and again, with closeups and soft focuses that blurred out other actors, he added visual detail to characterizations without the customary operatic formality of bringing singers to stage center for old-fashioned recitative and aria...
...Most opera managers return the favor, justly abhorring the quality of the operas usually produced by today's leading composers. As a way out of this impasse, Pierre Boulez, the aging enfant terrible of French music, once suggested blowing up all the old opera houses and starting anew. Britten's Owen Wingrave at least suggests that less draconian musical measures are possible...