Word: buffa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...critics were downright disgusted when Gian Carlo Menotti's new opera buffa was first performed in Paris last October. Le Dernier Sauvage had a libretto the French found far from funny, and its music they found distressingly short on substance. "A misery," said Le Figaro. But the Paris production was starved and skimpy, and Menotti's countless champions comforted themselves in the faith that The Last Savage would find a happier habitat in New York. Last week the Savage arrived at the Met in a production so beautiful that Menotti cheerfully conceded he would have no excuse...
...which also includes sketches for the Salon of 1804. There he came upon the Frick's David under "Painting No. 114." But the legend in the catalogue read: "Mme. Davin-Mirvault, portrait of Signor Bruni, composer, former conductor of the orchestra at the Opéra-Buffa...
William Allin Storrer, the director of the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players' new production of Patience, is, unlike President Pusey, no man to buck tradition; and he has infested the opera buffa with no end of comic items--dragoons drop their rifles on each other's feet, march in the wrong direction, and traipse through interminable jerky morrices with the female chorus of "twenty lovesick maidens" (some twelve in number). One budding Cantinflas, Kenneth Tiger, is even made to flourish that old gag prop, the rubber sword...
...work is The Clever Flirt (La Finta Semplice), K. 51. Mozart's first opera buffa and his first full-length opera. The impresario is Baird Hasting '39, who has made the English translation and will conduct the Mozart Festival Orchestra...
Unfortunately, there is less to The Grand Maneuver than meets the eye. The plot is about what one would expect of an Italian opera buffa, and, despite the brevity of the film, one's interest in the story often wanes. The hero, Armand, is a philandering young dragoon in the French army who would undoubtedly swagger if Gerard Philippe had put a little more spirit into the role. Armand wagers that he can, before the company goes on maneuvers, "win the favors of" some young mademoiselle, who has yet to be selected. At the provincial Red Cross ball Armand decides...