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...world-class quality, with elements so rich and varied that it would have international appeal." State and local governments chipped in half of the $4.8 million budget, and new works were commissioned from a dozen or so major playwrights, composers and choreographers, including Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson, Gian Carlo Menotti, Lukas Foss, Ned Rorem and Geoffrey Holder. To give the festival a festive look-and to remind everyone that this was, after all, flaky, flamboyant Miami-Christo, the site artist, was hired to wrap pink plastic ribbons around ten small, uninhabited islands in Biscayne...
...well as dramatically, and both the composer and the singer make the most of it. Pasatieri's music is pleasing rather than profound, but his lyrical gift is real. There are beautiful swelling orchestral lines in before Breakfast, and a touching, plangent piano solo. The influence of Gian Carlo Menotti is obvious, but in this, his 14th opera, Pasatieri speaks nonetheless in a voice all his own. Zschau is generally impressive in a role that was originally written for Beverly Sills. Zschau is a fine actress, as well as singer, and her only fault, a major one alas...
...nurtured Levi. The implication of the title is that despite the primitive religiosity of the culture that lay beyond Eboli, even the Saviour would have stopped before entering a realm "hedged in by custom and sorrow . . . without comfort or solace." What Levi -played with patient sympathy and intelligence by Gian Maria Volonte - finds in Lucania is a drunken priest who is sometimes stoned by the village children, a bombastic mayor with the habit of summoning everyone to the town square to hear his empty Fascist orations, doctors whose medical skills are scarcely more advanced than the folk medicine the towns...
...RIDICULOUS tramples victoriously over the sublime in Kirkland House Drama Society's production of Gian-Carlo Menotti's serious The Medium followed by P.D.Q. Bach's rollicking The Stoned Guest. It is simply impossible to come away from this dual presentation pondering the somber thoughts of The Medium when these dark thoughts are washed over with light P.D.Q. mockery. Although Peter Schickele (P.D.Q. Bach) might have revelled in this jocular juxtaposition, Menotti would doubtless have been displeased...
...long since destroyed) and the San Marco group. Almost all the major artists of the Renaissance, from Pisanello in the 15th century to Giambologna in the 16th, consulted the Venice horses; when Leonardo da Vinci was faced with the problem of designing a horseback monument to the Milanese warrior Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, he took them as his starting point, varying their massive poses and calm, advancing gait in numerous drawings, five exquisite examples of which are in the Met show. Only when the 17th century-under the influence of Rubens and Bernini-demanded more intricate, twisting, rearing, active poses...