Word: cenci
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sills came to the Met secure in her stardom. For Diaz's career, the principal male role in Siege means something completely different. Ten years younger than Sills, he has been at the Met for 12 and yet his greatest role to date--that of Count Cenci in Ginastera's Beatrix Cenci--didn't take place at the Met: Beatrix Cenci opened the Kennedy Center in 1972 and ran for two years at the New York City Opera. The role of Maometto, which he sang at La Scala with Sills in 1969 for his own debut there, is another crucial...
FRANCISCO CENCI (a sixteenth centaurs Roman nobleman who arranged the death of two of his sons and raped his daughter has intrigued a safety of authors including Stendahl. Shelley, and in this century. Antonin Artaud Beatrice, his daughter, added by her step-mother Lucretia and her remaining brothers, avenged the Counts crimes by hiring two assassins who killed him driving nails through his eye and throat. The plot was soon discovered and Lucretia. Beatrice, and her brother Giacomo were beheaded after Pops Clement VII deed their-piers for pardon...
Seth Riemer misinterprets his part as Giacomo, the family coward the only Cenci who would cringe at the thought of committing a murder. Riemer tries to convey this with an effect accent that seems anachronistic...
while plotting his family's ruin, Count Cenci muses: "The difference between the villainies committed in real life and the villainies acted out on the stage is that in real life we do more and say less: while in the theater we talk endlessly and accomplish very little." Cenci proposes to restore the balance, but because of Artaud's limited idea of theater and the production's failings, his promise goes unfulfilled. The Cenci is mostly talk...
...Rudel boasts this "our repertory is about as safe as a British soldier in Northern Ireland." Presumably, he will bring his sense of theater and his fondness for growth and risk to his tasks at Kennedy Center. His first two productions in Washington were Ginastera's strident Beatrix Cenci (TIME, Sept. 20) and Handel's rarely performed Ariodante. Though he hopes to invite La Scala, the Vienna Staatsoper and Britain's Royal Opera to Washington, he wants "nothing to do with a glorified booking house." Included in his future plans for the center are a series...