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Manhattan Composer Norman Dello Joio, 43, has been fascinated with Joan of Arc ever since he was twelve. Six years ago he completed an opera, The Triumph of Joan (TIME, May 22, 1950), but withdrew it after the première and used some of its music for a symphony. Still not satisfied that he had caught the inspiration of Saint Joan in music, the composer made a long study of the legal proceedings that sent Joan to the stake in 1431, finally wrote an entirely new libretto and score. Titled The Trial at Rouen, it had its premi...
Trial at Rouen is one of Composer Dello Joio's finest works, displaying his gift for vocal melody. The total effect is of opera in the Italian tradition, sturdier and more severe than the music of Menotti, but more full-bodied than the works of the extreme modernists...
Opera Theater (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC). Norman dello Joio's The Trial at Rouen, with Elaine Malbin as Joan...
Future names on the festival program furnish a virtual Who's Who in American Music, including Composers Walter Piston and Roy Harris, Aaron Copland, Paul Creston, Wallingford Riegger, Henry Cowell, Norman Dello Joio...
...high-caliber opera workshops are evidence of a demand for opera that eventually may bring about more truly professional productions. Says Composer Dello Joio: "We're on the threshold of a real American theater. We haven't had our Verdis and Wagners yet. It is inevitable in the next twenty years...