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...world. But Rudel's shows are rarely dull. Because he believes that "open should be a true amalgam of the visual and musical," he was steering City Opera toward total theater long before the term became fashionable. He hired such experienced directors as Frank Corsaro and Tito Capobianco, and gave then free dramatic rein. In those hands even old familiars like Gounod's Faust became provocative productions. In 1968, for instance, Corsaro transformed the simple good-conquers-evil parable of that libretto into a chilling Gothic horror tale of clashing wills between God and the devil. A year...
...purely scenic means, the City Opera helped raise Boito to the realm of the abstract. Set Designer David Mitchell and Stage Director Tito Capobianco placed the Prologue not in Heaven but in space. The Epilogue suggests Earth as a dying planet illuminated by the corpse of a setting sun. The production was strongly cast in other major roles. Carol Neblett, a vocally arresting but inexperienced soprano, did both Margherita and Helen of Troy. As Faust, Tenor Robert Nagy sang powerfully but with obvious effort. Julius Rudel's conducting rose successfully to the peaks but tended to coast through...
...Penn attack, choked for most of the game, managed one spurt in the third period when Richard Hannum passed 38 yards to end James Carpenter at the Harvard 10. But Hannum could take his team no farther, and Frank Capobianco's 22-yard field goal try was wide...
...private wardrobe is more fantastic. She has so many dresses that she need never wear the same one twice in a year. Her dresses are by Jeanne Lanvin and Rochas, her hats by Maria-Guy and Louise-Bourbon, her bags by Venry, her lingerie by Albison, her shoes by Capobianco, her jewels (mostly sapphires and rubies) by Ostertag...