Word: cassandras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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None of the singers have flawless French diction, but otherwise the Philips cast seems nearly perfect. Tenor Jon Vickers' heroic-sounding Aeneas has both muscle and gentleness; Mezzo-Soprano Josephine Veasey sings Dido with a burnished-bronze quality that can range from love to outrage. As Cassandra, Soprano Berit Lindholm is splendidly equipped to trumpet the doom of Troy, even if her voice is a bit too high for this low-ranging role...
...under the insubstantial banner of familiar, unarguable infinitudes without merit, meaning, or measure. Heroic action is just criminal pertinacity. When Troilus reaches a satanic inversion with the exclamation "O theft most base/ That we have stol'n what we do fear to keep," Shakespeare writes the stage direction, Enter Cassandra raving with her hair about her ears. I always think of Enobarbus's lines...
...harmony. But there is no melody like success. Henry has just completed his 72nd film, The Cheyenne Social Club, and currently is directing the Plumstead Playhouse version of Our Town. Jane has just won the New York Film Critics Award for her gritty, indomitable performance as a Dust Bowl Cassandra in They Shoot Horses. As for Peter, he will doubtless be a millionaire before the age of 30 for producing and starring in Easy Rider, the little movie that killed the big picture. Recognition, and years, have altered them all?particularly the kids. Jane is no longer content to play...