Word: fantasias
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...says, "and I loved it from the start." He is a noted opera prince -- a regular panelist on the Metropolitan Opera radio quiz -- with a huge record collection: "I could never play it all in my lifetime." From this fascination came his higher- than-camp opera fantasia, The Lisbon Traviata (1985), and a play in the works, L'Age d'Or (The Golden Age), about Bellini's relationship with sisters who are rival divas...
...engagement is blessed, however, with the crisp, lush American Symphony Orchestra, founded by Leopold Stokowski, who conducted 1940's Fantasia. A different local symphony will play at each stop, one of the nicer goals of the enterprise being to increase appreciation for the nation's orchestras. Stoky would have liked that...
...reached Broadway when it appeared as a concept album and gave birth to the rock opera in 1969, or even when it was filmed as a surreal fantasia by Ken Russell in 1975, Tommy might have had epic impact on the history of the musical. Rock is the mainstream sound of our era, and the theater is long overdue in making peace with that. Instead, a gloriously hyperkinetic staging arrives, a quarter century late, as nostalgia...
Dream of a garden painted by Rousseau, under the canopy of a huge Tiffany lampshade and inhabited by creatures from Fellini's or Tim Burton's wittiest musings. In this Day-Glo, candy-cane fantasia, the whole food chain is on display. The roustabouts wriggle like worms; some of the featured artistes are dressed as tigers or lizards. The clowns could be from a Greenwich Village Halloween parade: Munchkins and bathing beauties, Road Warriors and samurai. This is a circus even Madonna could love -- commedia dell'arte as restaged by surrealists in a birthday-party mood...
Eight screens displaying computer animation set the futuristic decor. Pink dancing hippos grace the back wall, where four other screens show the movie classic Fantasia...