Word: idomoneo
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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Last year's production of "Figaro" and "Don Giovanni" proved to all who saw them the advantages of this new fluidity in opera. Mozart's "Idomoneo", produced at Tanglewood in 1947 for the first time on this continent, was a superb example of Goldovsky's ability to produce works considered impossible by most companies...
...English translation that went over so well in "Idomoneo" seemed to bog down in "Giovanni." Recitatives like "What dreadful thing has happened" smacked unfortunately of Gilbert and Sullivan, and the Catalogue Aria collapsed. Giovanni's drinking song was taken at half speed, evidently to fit either the language or the voice...
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