Word: juno
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...masque celebrating the betrothal of the young lovers (which made the play especially apt for use in the marriage festivities of the daughter of James I), Ray Diffen has provided lovely gold-haloed costumes for the goddesses Iris, Ceres and Juno, who sing a terzetto by John Morris and oversee a pretty ballet of nymphs choreographed by Kathryn Posin (though Freedman has needlessly abridged the text in order to extend the singing and dancing--needlessly, since only The Comedy of Errors is shorter, and this production has a running-time of only two and a quarter hours...
...James, the statue unearthed in the gardens is of Juno, and when the Count falls in love with it, the Countess cleverly has it reinterred and saves her marriage. In Musgrave, the statue is Ariadne, but only her pedestal is found. The Count is seduced by her laments, which only he -and the audience (Ariadne's music is on pre-recorded tape)-can hear. He redeems himself through a sort of Wagnerian metamorphosis in which he firs thinks of himself as Theseus, then realizes that the Countess (splendidly sung by a young newcomer, Soprano Cynthia Clarey) is his real...
...Seymour Slive another Juno...
...with Ireland's Abbey Theater, now returned to the U.S., at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, for the first time in 38 years and touring on to Boston and Philadelphia. The Plough and the Stars is O'Casey's second-best play; his ineffable masterwork is Juno and the Paycock. This production might well be called The Plough. It is workmanlike but never, for a moment, lyrically incandescent...
...Roman goddess of wealth and marriage, and it took plenty of the former before Armand Hammer, 78, could latch on to Rembrandt's Juno. The perdurable Occidental Petroleum Corp. chairman, who recently received a $3,000 fine for making illegal contributions to the 1972 Nixon campaign, bought the 17th century masterpiece for $3.25 million from Navy Secretary J. William Middendorf II. The most highly priced Rembrandt ever sold, the painting will eventually land in the Los Angeles County Museum. "The seller was asking $5 million," said the magnate philosophically, "so I think $3.25 million is a bargain...