Word: laura
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...Laura: You can hold it, all right . . . Right there in that fat paunch of yours...
...Laura: Not my old man, my father! He was a fine person too . . . well known in his profession...
...this Tennessee Williams-toned opening scene, audiences at Tanglewood's Theater-Concert Hall were introduced last week to a new one-act trilingual opera entitled Tale for a Deaf Ear, by Manhattan Composer Mark Bucci (rhymes with kootchy). For the Gateses, things quickly go from bad to hideous; Laura tosses a glass of Scotch in Tracy's face, and Tracy, rising to slug her, falls to the floor, dead of a heart attack. A repentant Laura kneels and prays that he be restored to life. While a pit chorus explains what is going on, three legendary miracles...
Grateful for the miracle, Laura tries to change, but soon the old argument boils up again. Tracy dodges a flying ashtray, lifts his fist and drops dead again, this time permanently. While the doctor slips in and gives Laura a hypo, the chorus chants the moral: "The only death in life is the death of love...
...Elizabeth Enright story, almost jolted the overflow (1,300) audience out of their seats, left them applauding wildly. Composer Bucci's score was lushly melodic, reminiscent in the sweeping emotional climaxes of both Puccini and Menotti, and pricked by dissonances which underscored the shrill chatter of Laura and Tracy...