Word: cavs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speaker was Conductor Leonard Bernstein, and Franco is Designer-Director Franco Zeffirelli. The result of their talks created the first great occasion at the Met since it opened its season after a disastrous delay-a brand-new production of Cav and Pag (Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci), opera's beloved twin chestnuts, flossily refurbished. Though Bernstein's demanding schedule only permitted him to conduct Cav (Met Conductor Fausto Cleva did Pag), the night promised to be one to remember. Bernstein and Zeffirelli, after all, in 1964 had helped turn the Met's Falstaff into the recent decade...
...Peculiar Magic. Much of the trouble lay with the operas. Verdi's Falstaff, with its quicksilver score and its well-drawn characters, is a director's and a conductor's dream. Cav and Pag are genre pieces in a style known as verismo (truthful) to distinguish their homely subject matter from the myths and legends fashionable at the time...