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...reporters puzzle out the meaning of the big, empty mural, Director Salles explained, "The painting represents the victory of forces of light and peace over those of evil and death. The skeleton-like figure [center] with black wings is falling through an infinity of blue, like the fall of Icarus, while a female form [left] rises majestically, white and radiant. On the right side of the painting, the three brown figures in repose are the motionless spectators of the drama; they symbolize humanity at peace, contemplating the fulfillment of its destiny...
...Icarus Hampden-so symbolic a character that he never appears onscreen-is a Ferndale upperclassman grown disgusted with bungling adults and their clumsy efforts to avert planetary suicide. To show up his belligerent pacifist father (John Mills), Icarus organizes a Hydraheaded insurrection at Ferndale, torments the school's bedeviled head (Alastair Sim) into a hand-wringing funk, even has a detested master potted in the backside with a homemade blunderbuss. But these exploits are merely diversionary tactics to mask Icarus' Big Idea. The earthshaking plot: Icarus plans to pilot a stolen airplane to Vienna, jar the Big Four...
...Will Icarus reach Vienna on his borrowed wings? Will the wax seal on his petition melt if he flies too near the sun? Will his soul-stirring document resolve distrust among the Big Four and shock them to their senses? The questions are indisputably important and the lad's pluck is commendable, but the old. happy, skylarking days back at Ferndale were a lot more...
...dozens of others. The "something extra" that Ovid brings to each saga is the saving detail of homely human interest, and Translator Humphries helps bring it out with homely colloquial touches of his own. As Daedalus fashions feathers into wings for the fateful flight from Crete, his playful son Icarus...
...final rehearsal week, all other performances were canceled. It was necessary: the opera has some 18 scenes, uses specially filmed movie footage (doves, clouds and scenes of violence) plus so-odd full-color still projections (including El Greco's Toledo and Bruegel's The Fall of Icarus'). The cast included a chorus of 100, 48 solo parts and some 150 extras (redskins, sailors, Mexican gods...