Word: coventionalism
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...naked virgins to complement his twelve-tone melodies in 1932's Moses and Aaron. Schoenberg himself once said that the opera is "undoable," but now a plucky band of Britons led by Royal Shakespeare Theater Director Peter Hall, 34, has decided to stage it at London's Covent Garden. First off, Sheena the camel smashed one set in rehearsal, put her foot through another, had to be dropped from the cast. That left the donkeys, etc. Then the censors in the Lord Chamberlain's office warned against indecencies of dance and dress. The naked are "more...
...enthusiasm. An Australian who now lives in London, Nolan is known for his brooding canvases, his translucent colors, and his figures of man, often puzzled but always dignified. A ballet buff for years, he designed the sets for Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring at London's Covent Garden. He is a convinced Nureyev fan, has been observing the dancer since 1962. In London he once watched from the balcony for a week while Nureyev was rehearsing for Romeo and Juliet, a ballet that Nolan sees as "a ritual description of our civilization." The portrait depicts Nureyev...
...best operatic tradition, opportunity came on two days' notice: she replaced ailing Lucine Amara as Liu. Despite excellent notices, Bing still held her back: "You have plenty of time." She retorted: "I want to sing while I am young," and took off for Europe. She sang at Covent Garden, the Bolshoi, La Scala. In Moscow, she showed the first syndrome of a prima donna: she walked out after the second act of Eugene Onegin, declaring that "the applause was scanty." At a recital a few days later, chastened Muscovites bravoed her back for five encores...
...dramatic departure from anything he had done before. Spare, angular, dramatically taut, it has served as a jumping-off point for everything he is presently working on, notably a cantata drawn from the Confessions of St. Augustine, and a new and as yet untitled opera, which was commissioned by Covent Garden...
...exuberant about her new career. Her dressing room is crowded with "furry little toy animals," and like a teen-ager after the senior prom, she brings home all her curtain-call flowers and heaps them in the bathtub until she can arrange them around the house. To get to Covent Garden she takes a half hour ride on the tube, studying her role en route. "I memorize beautifully when there is noise around," she says. There promises to be a lot of noise about Gwyneth Jones for some years to come...