Word: idomenco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Giovanni" is Grand Opera in the fullest and most serious sense of the term, a fullness that neither "Figaro" nor "Idomenco," the previous efforts of the New England group, attempts to duplicate. The essential weakness of the performance yesterday was its failure to recognize Grand Opera, its insistence upon petty tricks of gesture and staging in place of the "grand style" that is dead for many things, but not for "Don Giovanni...
...general management of the enterprise, but especially for his conducting. the orchestra, though not enormous made Mozart's superb instrumental passages stand out Sunday as they seldom do, with the winds particularly good; and the entire opera was done with real spirit and good humor. "Don Giovanni" and "Idomenco" are next on the list in this Mozartean year; Mr. Goldovsky's treatment of their more difficult problems is awaited with interest and confidence. J.A.L
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