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...years ago. Last week Conductor Rodzinski, 64, was back in Chicago for the first time since his abrupt dismissal as boss of the Chicago Symphony. He came this time at the invitation of the Chicago Lyric Opera to conduct three performances each of Tristan und Isolde and Boris Godunov. In the process he demonstrated much of the brilliance that made him a legend with Chicago audiences a decade ago-but also flashes of the erratic temperament that had antagonized stiff-necked symphony board members...
...week's end Rodzinski abandoned his air of detached tolerance for a role more familiar to the Chicago fans. Down with a heavy cold, Rodzinski announced that on doctor's orders he was forced to cancel the first performance of Boris Godunov (which probably means that he will cancel all three). "You know why he needs all those doctors?" confided his wife to 'tiptoeing guests. "To tell him that he's all right...
During his regime Adler has at times misfired: last year's Boris Godunov, for instance, was a murky failure. But how well Adler has done is amply demonstrated by the fact that last month he and his company casually shrugged off cancellations by Sopranos Maria Callas and Antonietta Stella, promptly went on to give San Francisco what may well be its most stimulating opera season to date...
Most respected figure is the grand old man of Soviet graphic art, Book Illustrator Vladimir (Boris Godunov, The Lay of the Host of Igor) Favorsky, 71, whose prints have a turn-of-the-century, storybook quality but whose draftsmanship rated a "jolly able, jolly competent" from one British artist. Most original works were by Leonid Soifertis, staffer on the Soviet humor magazine Krokodil, whose casual hand turns out cartoons that rate a Soviet belly laugh, e.g., a dig at infant prodigies that shows a child with huge bull fiddle, both of which have to be carried on the stage. These...
Dubrovnik (July 1-Aug. 31) is the summer gathering place for Yugoslavia's best singers, dancers and composers. The festival's staple program performed by both visiting and local artists contains such works as Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, with a sprinkling of more modern works by composers such as Ernest Bloch and Manuel de Falla. A big annual drawing card: a great variety of fine wines from all parts of Yugoslavia...