Word: cardiff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Epstein. "The visual and musical values are different than in a bigger house, and now the gigantism of the '70s is turning around. These are troubled times for the bigger houses in Paris, London, Vienna. Some of the most exciting work today is being done in smaller theaters like Cardiff or Brussels. There is less emphasis on superstars and more on ensemble...
...Cardiff, of course, is where the new Falstaff was born (last September), after the Welsh National Opera spent years courting Stein, who made his reputation at Berlin's famous Schaubuhne theater. Stein saw Falstaff as an intensely personal drama, clearly sexual and even slightly sadistic. "Hold your paunch, celebrate it," he instructed Maxwell at one point during rehearsals. "For Falstaff, it is not grossness, it is greatness, virility." Bearing out Epstein's point, the modest dimensions of the BAM theater enabled Stein to stage Verdi's last masterpiece as a kind of chamber work, with the stage action fast-moving...
...Wales last year, the whole of the University College at Cardiff nearly went into bankruptcy and was saved by an emergency infusion of government cash that may not be there next time. To help head off any such crisis of its own, Oxford will launch a fund-raising campaign next October -- after getting some consulting help from Harvard and Princeton...
Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young the music issued at the lips . . . Cardiff Hill, beyond the village and above it, was green with vegetation, and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land, dreamy, reposeful and inviting...
CHILDHOOD: THE DELECTABLE LAND. Like Cardiff Hill, it lies just far enough away from the adult mind to be dreamy, to shimmer with a sentimental abstraction -- if one does not recall it too precisely. Childhood, where everyone begins, has the power of myth. Big people are gods, and the world is magic -- or terrifying...