Word: cinderella
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...Cinderella's charmed evening is fated to end in disgrace, however. Her enemies engineer her election as prom queen, only to ruin her moment of triumph by dousing their unsuspecting victim with a vat of blood--an especially cruel reminder of the scene in the showers. DePalma has obviously deemed this moment as the climax of the film; he drags the viewer through an agonizing five-minute sequence shot entirely in slow motion. Discordant violin strains accompany the doomed couple as they ascend to the stage. The glow of Carrie's face pains us all the more as the camera...
...week-end of November 12-14 means a choice between Pilobolus, Margalit Dance Theater and the opening performances of the Boston Ballet. This first program includes Serenade, Scotch Symphony and Prodigal Son by Balanchine and Cinderella by resident choreographer Ron Cunningham. (I've never seen any of these works, but they all seem to be about kids' fairy tales.) At the Boston Ballet tickets can be expensive, and the audience overdressed, but Balanchine looks just as interesting from the balcony...
Abbado's conducting was a deft blend of energy, delicacy and a Toscanini-like instinct for the dramatic jugular. Even better, perhaps, was his mercurial handling two nights later of Rossini's La Cenerentola (Cinderella). This work is chamber music for the opera house and easily the high point of the composer's comic style. Abbado has that style in his bones...
...Seville, probably because of its emphasis on bravura ensemble work over traditional solo arias. Further, the title role is written for an almost extinct species, the coloratura contralto. La Scala has such a rara avis in Lucia Valentini Terrani. She really has too hefty a look for an ideal Cinderella, but her voice was lusciously bronze and agile. The production is by France's Jean-Pierre Ponnelle; within a delightful children's cutout house, he manipulates his characters like a swinging Coppelius. How, for example, Soprano Margherita Guglielmi (Half Sister Clorinda) can make her hoopskirt behave like...
...quick succession by other tough games with Dallas and Miami. But football's canniest handicappers are boldly putting their money on the Colts: Baltimore, which never saw the light of the tube last year until the playoffs, is scheduled for five nationally televised games this season. As befits Cinderella...