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...production, conceived by Stage Director Nathaniel Merrill and executed by Set Designer Peter Wexler, has its curious faults. For example, Merrill has unaccountably confined Dido and Aeneas to a bedchamber when they should be strolling under the stars while singing Berlioz's interpolation of "In such a night as this" from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. In most other respects, the production is a visual extravaganza that at long last brings the Met fully into the 20th century. Rear slides and film vivify all the big moments, from the fall of Troy to the lovers' amorous romp...
...That first production was a direct steal from a stage play which had run in Boston at the old Tremont Theatre. Lemuel Hayward '45, together with a few of his colleagues, agreed that the mock trials had run their course. (The most popular of them had been called Dido vs. Aeneas: for Breach of Trust). And so Bombastes Furioso, the first in a long line of Pudding preparations was born. The play included one female character named Distaffina. "Madam" Augustus F. Hinchman '45 took the role. As Hayward later recalled...
...giggles at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, but no matter. The important thing is that French Composer Maurice Ghana's jagged, surrealistic chamber opera, Syllabaire pour Phèdre (1967), has found a stage. Together with Henry Purcell's well-known yet seldom performed 17th century opera Dido and Aeneas, Ghana's work last week inaugurated the Metropolitan Opera's Mini-Met-officially known as the Opera at the Forum...
...gilded names among the less familiar artists who will get exposure at Mini-Met, Chapin clearly hopes to attract subscribers from the parent company as well as tap a new and younger public. On opening night, for example, a gifted newcomer named Nancy Williams sang Phaedra, while Dido and Aeneas were handsomely dispatched by International Stars Evelyn Lear and Thomas Stewart. The audience reflected the casting: brocaded ladies and black-tie escorts presumably for Lear and Stewart, denim and leather for Williams...
Miss Jens is pretty enough to enact the Egyptian, who ages from 29 to 39. But she is not queenly, nor is she sexy. She does not embody the fatal allure that could pull Antony off his course in the way Dido waylaid Aeneas. Vocally, Miss Jens lacks a sense of rhythm and musicality...