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Ideals of love as high as Dido's demand much from a production if they are to be convincing. Dido, of course, rejects Aeneas because he intially succumbs to Fate's dictum that he leave her, but such conviction can emerge easily as prissiness, and its ruler, destiny, as mere farce. The principals last night did capture the opera's ideals; the chorus gave adequate support to the venture, the orchestra little; and the forces of destiny did not even pretend to their powers, nor did they exhibit that of singing ability...
Purcell has sketched Dido and Aeneas as very real people. Aeneas almost parodies the traditional hero: when Fate tells him to depart he immediately says "of course" but when he thinks about it he curses the Spirit rather pompously. Alvarez Bulos paraded in just that manner, and swelled the roundness of his tone to catch Aeneas's rather stolid uprightness. In fact, his effort went too far: his tone became coarse and lacked contrast in its registers...
...Irishmen, forget the past And think of the day that is coming fast, When we shall all be civilized, Neat and clean, and well-advised, Oh, won't Mother England be surprised, Whack fol the diddle lol the dido...
...because it came out against a natural gas bill that favored Texas gas producers by exempting them from FPC regulation. Nor did Wilson win points in the 1957 case of Coed Barbara Louise Smith, a soprano who was removed from the leading role in a music department production of Dido and Aeneas because some legislators objected to the fact that she is a Negro. (The university is desegregated, has about 250 Negroes...
...regret that Shakespeare didn't write another play covering Antony's life during the year between the end of Julius Caesar and the start of Antony and Cleopatra; there lay the stuff of a real high tragedy, a tale to compare with the analogous one of Aeneas and Dido...