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...smoothly into the ensembles (his aria was wisely omitted, as was Marcellina's). David Cornell's Bartolo was strong but a little clumsy and headstrong. Angus Duncan as Antonio was marvellously and bitterly ironic. He also had one of the most brilliant lines of the translation: describing Cherubino's leap from a window, he testifies, "I'm sure that he wasn't on horseback, for no horse from the window came down." But of all the minor roles, Juliet Cunningham's Barbarina was best. Her fourth act cavatina ("I'ho perduta, me meschina") had just the right touch of girlish...
John Lithgow's staging was restrained (for Lithgow) and stylized. His blocking moved well, and the choreography had moments of brilliance without upstaging the music. The panic preceding Cherubino's leap from the window, the third act choral dance, and the intricate comings and goings of the last scene were the best...
...pole vaulters had the most trouble. Four of the six failed to clear any height and only three jumps were successful. Steve Schoonove fresh from his 15'7'' leap indoors, needed three trys to make 12 feet. But won when he made 12'6'' on his first try after he had taken off one of his two sweat suits...
...characters involved in this steeplechase haven't any Hamlet-like opportunities. They don't develop passions; they leap from one passion to another. A lady may brutally reject a man, then delightedly choose him. There are a couple of acts and no warnings in between...
Prior to last week's leap into the jet age, C.A.L.'s coffers were filled chiefly by the wages of war. Charter work in Viet Nam uses 19 of its aircraft, and China Air pilots have been shot at by Red Chinese, Pathet Lao and Viet Cong. Admitting that he has no clearer picture of the Viet Nam war than anyone else, 55-year-old President Ben Y.C. Chow, a former Chinese-air-force lieutenant general who retired in 1964 to take the controls at C.A.L., is nevertheless planning for a more peaceful future. "Everything...