Word: libretto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hell on Earth. Penderecki based The Devils of Loudun on both Aldous Huxley's historical essay and John Whiting's play The Devils. The libretto sketches the facts surrounding the torture and execution of a Jesuit priest in a 17th century French provincial town. Sister Jeanne of the Angels, prioress of St. Ursula's Convent, asks Father Urbain Grandier (sung by Baritone Andre Hiolski) to become the cloister's confessor. When the worldly, sensual priest declines the offer, Sister Jeanne has a series of hysterical sexual hallucinations that soon infect other nuns in the convent. Eventually...
...projects very greatly: one Scholar is studying the use of dance therapy for psychological and physical rehabilitation; another, how to communicate physics to children and laymen; another is writing the music and libretto for an opera; and another is exploring pre-Euclidian mathematical sources...
...hackneyed combination of a dominating mother and fairy tale. The lines stay fresh onstage. Aggravain's "Remember, blood will tell and yours didn't tell us quite enough," said to a flunking wife-candidate, is a lot funnier under Josh Rubin's direction than it is in the libretto...
Sunday, March 30 DIRECTIONS (ABC, 1-2 p.m.). "The Final Ingredient," an opera by David Amram (libretto by Arnold Weinstein) celebrates a Passover Seder in a Nazi concentration camp. Repeat...
...What has passed returns to nothingness if one gazes back at it," runs one line of the libretto. "Today is spring; tomorrow the flower wilts." Perhaps it was thoughts like these that helped Yun finish Dreams in a Seoul prison cell last year...