Word: libretto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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GILBERT AND SULLIVAN'S operetta H.M.S. Pinafore has been done countless times by many different kinds of companies. Although the passing of time has drained it of political and social satire, the gushing Victorian libretto and lively score still produces a good comic opera...
Brecht and Weill are so well-known for Threepenny Opera that their other masterpieces are often ignored. Sarah Caldwell is presenting The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. The libretto, as bitter as any Brecht ever did, concerns a city whose only crime is if you cannot pay. Too bad most of us cannot pay for the tickets: the ones left are from $10 to $18. The sensible way to see Boston Opera Company productions is to enroll in their open-rehearsal subscription series...
...real jewel of the season promises to be Kurt Weill's great Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, which the Boston Opera is producing in the spring. Mahagonny has a Brecht libretto about the building of the capitalist paradise, the City of Nets, where everyone can do whatever he likes as long as he can pay for it. Mahogonny's best-known number is probably the Alabama-Song, one of two songs Brecht wrote in English, which the Doors popularized a few years ago. But there's so much great, furious music in Mahogonny that it's hard...
Montezuma has, as Associated Artist's press releases modestly put it, "an unusual libretto by Frederick the Great." Graun was the flutist-emperor's court composer, and his duties included writing opera seria, all of which were naturally forgotten when baroque opera went out of style. The Associated Artists have resurrected Montezuma, with the castrati parts down an octave so that men can sing them...
BOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS. Montezuma. An opera by Karl Heinrich Graun, an eighteenth-century Prussian, in its American premiere. The anti-imperialist libretto is by Frederick the Great. Tomorrow...