Word: labyrinth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...OPERA COMPANY (NBC, 2-3 p.m.). The opening of the company's 15th season with a repeat of last year's world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's Labyrinth...
...Gian Carlo Menotti, death is the moment of the enlightenment that makes life worthwhile. In Labyrinth, his last television opera, he dwelt on the idea to the point of moral vertigo. If life is a grand hotel, he seemed to be saying, then death is its night clerk. Those who want keys to their rooms must die to get them...
...Gasman Goeth. Brenan lives in Spain-not because it is romantic but "because it is cheap"-surrounded by a 2,000-book library, writing distinguished books about Spain (South from Granada, The Spanish Labyrinth], and glumly accepting visits from old Bloomsbury friends like Lytton Strachey. What makes Brenan's story unique and the telling of it a rare pleasure is the one quality that distinguishes him from the ordinary run of men-his indifference to the opinions of others. In the cozy modern commonwealth of man, he never learned to snuggle up to his fellows. He had a hermit...
Première (ABC, 10-11 p.m.).-Salome Jens and Patrick O'Neal in an adaptation of Lawrence Durrell's novel, The Dark Labyrinth...
Menotti himself sums it up best: "In Labyrinth, I tried to see how unoperatic an opera could be. I defy all operatic traditions-for example, there's a hero who never sings an aria. In opera the score meditates upon the action-what moves you is the song of what is about to happen, or what happened. Here I have musical comment while things are still going...