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Conductor Antal Dorati faced 17 musicians wearing 18th century breeches, periwigs and white silk hose. On a balcony overhead. Surrealist Artist Salvador Dali abruptly appeared in a Venetian gondolier's outfit and a red Catalan cap, began splashing brown and gold paint on a canvas with such vehemence that he spattered the astonished audience below. With a flourish, he ripped the canvas open-and out flew a dozen frightened homing pigeons, to flap about looking wildly for their cote...
...Presumably, the select group of invited critics and music lovers came with the expectation of hearing The Spanish Lady and The Roman Cavalier, a retitle for Alessandro Scarlatti's long-forgotten comic opera, Scipio in Spain, composed in 1714. What they got was Scarlatti heavily laced with Salvador Dali, theatrical effects, erotic dancers and leering double-entendres...
Pianos, Beef & Milk. Commissioned two years ago to stage The Spanish Lady, Dali dived into the project with his usual manic genius. The rising curtain revealed a ghostly painted image of Dali, mustache tips rising to eyebrows, eyes piercing the audience. As the gauze tableau faded out, the heroine came on, her two-yard-long tresses supported by a red crutch. Presently she extracted a pie-sized Dalian watch from her bosom and bestowed it on her suitor. There were other visual distractions: a colored tableau showing a large violin walking on spindly legs and stretching an arm toward...
...entire singing cast-struggled to tell Scarlatti's simple allegory of an aging Roman centurion's efforts to win a Catalan coquette long after the decline of the Roman Empire had doomed to failure any such suit. The singers struggled against impossible odds. Three more curtain-size Dali tableaux fell, each full of the usual Dalian symbols: butterflies, breasts, limp watches and legions of crutches...
...Frankie $5,000 for a one-shot appearance. Meanwhile, the Royal Poinciana Playhouse had begun its fourth season with The Skin of Our Teeth, which will soon leave on a State Department tour of Europe, with Helen Hayes, Leif Erickson, June Havoc and Helen Menken. With Artist-Showman Salvador Dali. Bandleader Sammy Kaye, Mime Marcel Marceau, Actor-Singer Russell Nype. Hollywood Profile George Hamilton and Actress Susan Kohner also in town for highly varied reasons, there was more than ample fuel for the increasing celebrity-consciousness of Palm Beach's younger generation...