Word: figaro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suits and house trailers to computers from IBM, Burroughs and Control Data. Computers? Certainly. Communists control 1,100 of France's 38,000 municipalities and, like mayors of more conservative stripe, they are rapidly turning to computers to help ease their administrative burdens. As the conservative newspaper Le Figaro noted: "This fiesta of socialism is a showcase for capitalism...
...huge American corporations. After De Gaulle's funeral last November, Heath asked during a brief meeting with Pompidou: "Do you see a major difficulty to Britain's entry into the European Economic Community?" "I see only one," Pompidou replied. With that, he opened a copy of Le Figaro to a full-page ad for British Overseas Airways Corporation that proclaimed: L'AMÉRIQUE COMMENCE À LONDRES-America begins in London...
...voice well suited to the Italian comic opera, will sing the role of Basilio, the pudgy priest who is chaplain in the court of Count Almaviva. The plot of Barber is based on a play of Beaumarchais, and is related to the plot of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro...
...Barber, written by Rossini in 1816, comes after Figaro chronologically, but the action of the play is a prelude to that of the Mozart opera. In his role as Don Basilio, Gill will be called on to sing one of the most memorable parts of the opera, the "calumny" aria...
Leverett's Figaro is a competent production of a venerable warhorse, not as good as the Met, certainly, but good for an amateur group. But the whole concept of a House hiring an outside conductor, director, orchestra and leads, at an enormous cost, in order to produce an opera which is by no means a novelty, is unsettling. This is the second time in three years that Leverett House has done Figaro, and it seems a waste of time and effort to recover old ground...