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...blessed with a first-rate cast, a skilled if not always inspired conductor, and a director with strong dramatic ideas about the piece, it must rank as one of the best stagings in recent memory. Objections may be raised about some of Director Nikolaus Lehnhoff's departures from Wagnerian canon in an otherwise traditionalist view of the work. But there can be no disputing the high quality of the vocalism. Since 1976, there has been a director's Ring (Patrice Chereau's Wagner-as-social-revolution) and a conductor's Ring (Sir Georg Solti's at Bayreuth in 1983). Here...
...Nicaragua, four Roman Catholic priests remain as officials in the Marxist- led Sandinista government in defiance of canon law, which prohibits priests from holding public office. One of the priests was expelled from the Society of Jesus in December; the other three priests were forbidden in January by the Vatican to perform their sacerdotal duties if they did not resign in two weeks. Insists Fernando Cardenal Martinez, the former Jesuit and Nicaragua's Education Minister: "There is no basic religious problem between the church and the revolution. What exists is a political confrontation...
...Rome issued the suspension order to Cardenal and the three other rebellious political priests in Nicaragua: Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, Culture Minister Ernesto Cardenal Martinez, and Edgard Parrales, Ambassador to the Organization of American States. In the Vatican's view it was merely a question of enforcing canon...
They cannot, according to the Vatican. Officials in Rome tend to regard the American women's criticisms as a peculiarity of U.S. society; they hear relatively few such complaints from the rest of the world. The church's new code of canon law, which took effect in December of 1983, spells out the rules for all orders, down to such details as living in "their own religious house" rather than an apartment and wearing some kind of religious clothing "as a sign of their consecration." The constitutions of all 300-odd U.S. orders of sisters must conform...
...Yale University School of Drama, counters that theater is an amalgam of creative efforts, with contributions by the director, designers and actors. Says he: "The play, while the most important aspect, is not the only one." Brustein draws a distinction between new plays and those already in the canon. When staging a premiere, a director should respect the letter of the playwright's intentions. "The analogy is with Shakespeare," says Brustein. "The first performance of Antony and Cleopatra put Cleopatra on stage in a hoop skirt. Does that mean that all future productions should...