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...most creative companies in the world. An opera composer himself (Penelope, School for Wives), Liebermann commissions two new operas a year, lets producers and directors follow their own imaginative flights. Currently, two new productions - a brilliant revival of Mozart's The Magic Flute and the premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's first major stage work in five years - are proving the wisdom of such artistic generosity...
Love, Love, Love! Yet at Italy's Spoleto Festival last week, Gian Carlo Menotti's new production of Tristan had the audience putting on its glasses in a hurry. To create "sensuality on the stage corresponding to that of the music," Festival Director Menotti charted swirls of fluid movement and replaced the traditional austerity of Wagnerian scenery with velvet, flowers and drawing-room furniture. Menotti was also convinced that "when an Isolde looks like a virago and Tristan looks like a Swedish masseur, the love scenes risk becoming grotesque, even comical." So he filled the leading roles with...
...Russian exhibit arrived late. Three of the four artists in the French pavilion closed their exhibits. So did 20 of the 23 Italians, and artists in the Danish and Yugoslav pavilions. A group of 97 artists and critics demanded the resignation of the Biennale's organizer, Professor Gian-Alberto dell' Acqua. The awarding of prizes was postponed indefinitely...
SPOLETO (June 27-July 14). The eleventh season of the Festival of Two Worlds in the Umbrian hills opens with a new production of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde staged by Gian Carlo Menotti, whose approach to the opera is "romantic," and who intends to stress its "erotic and youthful theme." Other highlights: noon chamber music, a triple bill of Avant-Garde Composer Luciano Berio's Laborintus II, Goffredo Petrassi's Estri and Henry Pousseur's Response...
When a Viet Cong squad entrenched itself around the Phan Thanh Gian Bridge, South Vietnamese Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan grew impatient at South Vietnamese navy and marine troops trying to knock them out, came to the bridge to take personal command of the assault. It nearly cost him his life. After firing several bursts from his AR-15 at the enemy, he himself was hit in the thigh and leg. An American MP floated Loan down the river under the protection of the floor boards of the docks and stilt-houses until he could be safely evacuated. Loan...