Word: elvira
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HARVARD SQUARE CINEMA. The Emigrants, 1, 5:05, 9:15. Elvira Madigan...
...movie, which will open in New York City on Feb. 1, is already a sensation and a scandal in Europe. It has been called a "pornographic Elvira Madigan" as well as a work of "constant beauty"; a piece of "talented debauchery that often makes you want to vomit" as well as an "authentic moral and psychological Apocalypse." Debates about its meaning and merits are raging among critics, intellectuals, theologians and editorial writers...
PLAZA, BROOKLINE. The Virgin & the Gypsy 7:45. Elvira Madigan...
...time greats. Bergman's Passion of Anna the culmination of two decades of cinematic experiment, psychological examination and religious questioning. The only people who don't admire it are certain radical film critics who consider Bergman an "elitist." Sunday, it's back to staidsville, with the weepy Elvira Madigan and the better, if modest. Taste of Honey. (Call 566-0007 for times and further scheduling...
...fine English translation of the libretto did not help Elisabeth Phinney as Donna Elvira. Her diction in arias was mediocre. She was perfectly clear through the recitative so the problem is obviously not insoluble. She was at her best in Ah, Fuggi il Traditor, a Handelian rage aria complete with dotted rhythms, large interval leaps, and distinct bass line. In the peasant-girl Zerlina's role, Lisbeth Brittain was properly ingenuous and sang with a bright, light soprano voice...