Word: gerda
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Andrew A. Gerda Pittsburgh
...audience for the new and the unusual. The current season is typical: the American premiere of Japanese Composer Minoru Miki's An Actor's Revenge, a double bill consisting of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's The Secret of Susanna and Frederick Delius' last opera, Fennimore and Gerda (also an American premiere), Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and Verdi's Rigoletto, all sung in English...
...opera is based on the novel Niels Lyhne by the Danish writer Jens Peter Jacobsen and concerns Niels' love for two women, Fennimore and Gerda. Most of it is devoted to his tragic affair with Fennimore; some months after finishing the rest, Delius added the two Gerda scenes, which provide a happy ending...
Sopranos Kathryn Bouleyn and Kathryn Gamberoni stood out in the title roles. Christopher Keene, an important young American conductor, led the score with considerable sensitivity. Director Frank Corsaro captured the lyricism of Fennimore and Gerda with a light, poetic touch. He staged the action behind a scrim, using film and slides to indicate the passage of time and interpolating mimed action during the orchestral interludes...
UNLIKE SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR or Gerda Lerner, Jane O'Reilly will probably not go down in history as one of feminism's pioneering thinkers. But she has certainly done a lot to popularize the cause. Since her contribution to Ms. magazine's first issue in 1970, the free-lance journalist has broadcasted the validity of the women's movement in Time, Atlantic Monthly and New York magazines. Her first book, The Girl I Left Behind: The Housewife's Moment of Truth and Other Feminist Ravings, is a collection of some of O'Reilly's wittiest and most perceptive essays...