Word: heros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...These operas do not require powdered wigs and candelabra to make their political points," says Sellars. True enough, but if Sellars had really wanted to modernize Mozart's opera, his hero should have been a Wall Street arbitrager, or perhaps a rock star. For that matter, he should sing in English, but Sellars characteristically prefers that Da Ponte's witty text remain obscure, that "the audience ((be)) forced to take in information through other pores...
Just as Sellars' transfer of Don Giovanni to a phantasmagorical Spanish Harlem really tells us very little about Harlem, it also tells us nothing new about Don Giovanni. There have been so many changes in plot and character that Giovanni is no longer Mozart's defiant hero but a quite different and less interesting character of Sellars' creation. In the intensely dramatic finale, for example, he is not dragged unrepentant to hell by the statue of the man he murdered but rather led there, while groveling in his underwear, by a young girl in what looks like a Communion dress...
...just a little more than a year ago when the Duke marched into the Democratic Convention in Atlanta as a conquering hero. He had just successfully walked a political tightrope, garnering the support of the liberal Rev. Jesse L. Jackson only days after choosing the conservative Sen. Lloyd Bensten (D-Tex.) as his running mate...
...Kremlin was plainly alarmed that the strikes were eroding the party's control. Since the 1930s, no one had personified the state's ideal Soviet worker better than the propaganda hero Alexei Stakhanov, the coal miner who reputedly produced 14 times the daily norm. But there were no Stakhanovites in the Soviet Union's biggest coalfields last week. Wildcat strikes by more than 300,000 workers paralyzed some 250 mines and factories in the Kuzbass and Donbass basins, resulting in a 6 million-ton loss of production. The walkout spread as far as the coalpits in Vorkuta...
...city of Rangoon narrowly avoided another bloodbath last week when club- wielding government troops waded into 1,000 protesters on Martyrs Day, which marked the 42nd anniversary of the death of independence hero Aung San. The government reported that 44 people had been "detained...