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Putzi, as the piano-playing Hanfstaengl was called, had been a supporter of Hitler from before the 1923 putsch and became the Fuehrer's "court jester" until he fled Germany...
...evenings: Vladimir Levashev, who danced the role of the Evil Sorcerer with briny conviction and made his final, crippled death dance a wonderful virtuoso exercise; Nicolai Fadeyechev, who was superb as the Prince, particularly in his leaps in the Act III Black Swan variations; Georgi Soloviev as an acrobatic Jester (a happy Russian addition to the ballet). Occasionally ragged the first evening, the Bolshoi's Swan Lake was danced with fine precision at the second performance. The repetitive, copybook attitudes of the ballet corps occasionally clotted the action and wearied the eye. But for the most part...
...best of the low comic performances is also the most delicate: John Neville's pathetic, feeble-minded, utterly out-of-it Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Dudley Jones plays Feste as a sad, second-rate jester who has a hard time making a living, and his fine performance helps to keep the plaintive note running through the comic scenes (though it points up the fact that William S. Gilbert's Jack Point, constructed on the same basis, is a more interesting character than Feste). Richard Wordsworth (Malvolio), Joss Ackland (Sir Toby Belch), and the other comics play conventionally, with the down...
This opera is the one set in the Tower of London, where Colonel Fairfax, the handsome hero, almost loses his head, and Jack Point, the jester, loses his girl instead. A flirtatious soubrette, a formidable contralto, and a Head Jailer and Assistant Tormentor are also on the premises...
...cast is headed by Eric Martin as Jack Point, and he is superb. With his pale, drawn, expressive face he makes a sad jester, but a funny one, so that his transition from comedy to pathos occasions no jolt, because both elements are in the character from the beginning. His movements are compact of nimbleness, and he can sing...