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...Milan's La Scala are at least as high. More exciting days, though, may be ahead. Next year Bernstein and the Viennese stage director Otto Schenk will collaborate on a new production of Fidelio. Also scheduled are expensively mounted revivals of Verdi's Macbeth, Gluck's Iphigénie and such relatively little-known works as Smetana's Dalibor and Gottfried von Einem's Der Prozess...
...lyric poems a year or two later. Notwithstanding Bernard Shaw, who started to write plays around 40, most dramatists do their best in their 30s: comedies from 32 to 36 (e.g., Shakespeare's As You Like It), tragedies from 34 to 38 (Hamlet and Racine's Iphigénie). Novelists are most likely to hit the jackpot between...
...critic Henderson never minced matters. He called Marion Talley "A Chamber of Commerce soprano with a phonograph voice." He wrote of a soprano singing Iphigénie en Aulide that "she seemed a fit subject for the sacrifice." Because the Metropolitan put on too many Fausts in the 18905 he called it "Das Faustspielhaus...
...music impressed Philadelphians as being astoundingly fresh and vital. Gluck borrowed his characters from Euripides but he gave them new life. His Iphigénie aroused real pity when she prepared to sacrifice herself to the demanding gods. Clytemnestra was a fury as she uttered her defiance. The warrior Achilles provided another stirring climax when he swore to fight the fate that seemed inevitable...
...Philadelphia production left little to be desired. The one setting by Norman Bel Geddes was impressively stark and simple. The characters were expertly portrayed by such singers as Rosa Tentoni (Iphigénie), Cyrena van Gordon (Clytemnestra), Joseph Bentonelli (Achilles), Georges Baklanoff (Agamemnon). For the dances Charles Weidman and Doris Humphrey supplied excellent choreography, won great applause. Again Philadelphia Orchestramen proved their superiority to routine opera players...