Word: heroisms
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Other fans find a reassuring permanence in the ever familiar opera repertory. Still others are attracted because in a mechanized, computerized world, opera offers escape into a realm of heroism-which is another way of saying individualism. Perhaps they come because, in the words of Langdon Van Norden, president of the Metropolitan Opera Guild, "they are madmen! Madmen all!" But the dividing line between madness and love is unclear, and they come, above all, because they love the musical form of poetry, the amalgam of arts, that is opera. By joining words and music, sight and sound, opera enables...
...superior intensity of musical expression making the opera far more real than the play." In Mozart's Don Giovanni, probably the greatest opera ever written, the Don, to judge from the text alone, could be just a playboy or an obsessive lecher. What gives him nobility and heroism, what defines him as not simply a lecher but a rebel against God, is Mozart's music. "An F-sharp doesn't have to be considered in the mind; it scores a direct hit," Leonard Bernstein points out. "Think of King Lear in an opera...
...TIMES'S cover story (April 23) on the American fighting man, Risner, commanding officer of the 67th Tactical Fighter Squadron ("The Fighting Cocks"), led scores of air strikes over North Viet Nam and was called back to the Pentagon briefly to receive the Air Force Cross for heroism. After the ceremony, Air Force Chief of Staff John P. McConnell told Risner, a part-Cherokee from Tulsa: "Now goddam mit, Robbie, don't go back out there and get your tail shot...
THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES. A corps of high-borne comedians (Gert Frobe, Alberto Sordi, Terry-Thomas) barnstorm through a London-Paris air race at the controls of delightful vintage-1910 aircraft-held together by heroism, slapstick and nostalgia...
...must sweat along with him through several murders, a photogenic chase across Central Park, and a maddening game of mental gymnastics. Scenarist Peter Stone (Charade) varies the pace with droll asides, most of them knowingly shrugged off by Matthau as the reluctant snoop who abhors firearms and acts of heroism, and struggles gamely to look hard-bitten while guzzling Dr. Pepper...