Word: coventionalism
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...sold out. Kelly's winning formula: high-quality productions with big-name singers and the best young talent available. Highlight of the company's new production of Macbeth last week was the performance of Welsh Soprano Gwyneth Jones. A tall, flame-haired import from London's Covent Garden, she was a marvelously malevolent partner for Baritone Mario Zanasi as Macbeth, repeatedly thrilled the audience with her heroic, ringing voice. Jones's appearance marked her U.S. debut, and is the latest in a long string of firsts for the Dallas Civic Opera. The company, in fact, like...
Soapsuds & Whitewash. Turner, who in his own lifetime was recognized as perhaps the greatest painter of his era, knew his full share of both wealth and derision. Born to a Covent Garden barber in 1775, he was admitted at 14 as a student in the Royal Academy. At 27, he was elected a full-fledged academician. The works that won him fame, however, were hardly revolutionary. During his earlier years, Turner churned out Old Testament fantasies, nymphs cavorting in arcadian glades, and historical scenarios of such newsworthy topics as the battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar...
...sale," sell for $9.50 for a single copy, up to $25 for an album. For the Callas fan, for example, the catalogue lists her excellent 1958 performance of Medea with the Dallas Opera, taped by a college student who hid his microphone in the footlights, and a 1952 Covent Garden production of Norma, prized by collectors because the cast also featured a then unknown singer named Joan Sutherland...
Balanchine's New York City Ballet: "Pretentious and silly," "stiff and neoclassical," "gymnastic and stylistically infelicitous." His dancers: "A memorial should be erected to all the gallant Americans who fell at Covent Garden...
...critical flipflop? Balanchine tactfully made it clear that it was not he who had matured, but the London audiences. His present company, he pointed out, is not necessarily better than the one he brought to Covent Garden in 1952. It is just that London balletomanes, long raised on dance with a heavy dose of story line, have lately come to realize, says Balanchine, "that you don't need the lousy little stories. They say Balanchine is a neoclassicist. They put you in a position where you are not, and then they can't comprehend when...