Word: furioso
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thinks, has an "impossible" technique and is too lax with singers. Partly because of these traits, partly because of the didacticism of his approach, Swarowsky has never made great headway as a practicing conductor. It is only when he conducts his classes-scherzo, andante, furioso and rondo-that his true mastery appears...
...melodic and elaborately embellished Handel work proved to be one of those baroque affairs full of knights, courtiers and disguised lovers, all involved in magical complications. (The 1735 libretto was taken from the famed Renaissance epic, Orlando Furioso, by Italian Poet Lodovico Ariosto.) The imaginative Dallas production made all this easier to take by treating the piece as a play within a play-a musical evening in the home of a nobleman of Handel's period, with the opera itself presented as an entertainment for the guests. The opulent, columned and chandeliered set had a revolving dais at stage...