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...fell in love at first sight. It's the sort of city I'm glad to be married to." The indefatigable Composer-Director-Impresario Gian Carlo Menotti was at it again, in what could be the greatest -and riskiest-romance of his long career in music and the performing arts: launching an American version of Italy's Spoleto Festival in Charleston, S.C. Menotti created the original festival in June 1958, transforming the quiet old Umbrian hill town of Spoleto into an international center of the arts...
...Gian-Carlo Menotti's latest opera, The Hero, opens in a modern bedroom that has been decorated as a tourist attraction. To the right sits a fourposter. It is roped off and its curtains are drawn. In the rear is a stand displaying souvenir dishes and postcards. Also on sale are toy replicas of a man in bed. Two tourists, a husband and wife, enter the room. The proprietress announces that the admission is $2 each. Replies the man: "Two dollars! Shit!" Leave it to the man who brought opera to both Broadway (The Consul) and film (The Medium...
Lulu has a blustery intensity that finds its source largely in the superb performance of Gian Maria Volonte. He plays the conscientious and eventually disconcerted Lulu with just the right mixture of dumb charm and derangement. It is Petri's thesis that the industrial state can be located somewhere between depersonalization and psychosis, and Volonte is eminently capable of covering the range in between. His Lulu is a creature of blind dedication with the best production record in the factory. No matter that he comes home too bushed to enjoy the amorous invitations of his mistress (the wonderful Mariangela...
...weaves, rises and falls to the natural conversational flow of the Russian words. Boris' realistic-in a sense unoperatic-style of recitative is perhaps Mussorgsky's greatest innovation and contribution to future operatic composers. Says Conductor Schippers: "Boris influenced so many composers-Puccini, Stravinsky, Janacek, even Gian Carlo Menotti. Without it we might not have had a Pelleas et Melisande. That's how important I think Boris is." -William Bender
...Died. Gian Francesco Malipiero, 91, Italian composer of 40 operas (Julius Caesar, Metamorphoses of Bonaventura) and eight major symphonies; of a heart attack; in Treviso, Italy. A descendant of Venetian doges, Malipiero was influenced by early Italian composers like Monteverdi but was also an innovator, writing atonal music at a time when Puccini was turning out his sweetly melodic opera scores...