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MUSIC Bosnia And the Ship Sailed On Evropa Music by Nigel Osborne; Libretto by Goran Simic The necessity of the arts for the survival of dignity and the human spirit is nowhere more apparent than in Sarajevo. In nearly three years under siege, Sarajevans have refused to allow the Bosnian capital's artistic soul to perish. An emotional highlight at the 11th annual Sarajevo Winter Festival last week was a one-time-only performance of an operetta by Britain's Nigel Osborne and Bosnian poet Goran Simic. With President Alija Izetbegovic in the audience, the production (also seen on national...
...drugged stupor, stopping to pound out a few chords on his piano before Humbert Humbert (Per-Arne Wahlgren) shoots him-is a scene worthy of Shostakovich in his manic, trumpets-and-snare-drums mode, but all Schedrin can muster is forced-march noodlings. As for the vulgar libretto, Schedrin wrote it himself but neglected to secure rights from the Nabokov estate. The copyright problems were eventually sorted out with the stipulation that the opera may not be sung in any major language such as Russian or English (in Stockholm it was sung in Swedish...
...serving to inspire a trilogy by Glass. His work in progress, Les Enfants Terribles, will be a dance-theater work based on the scenario of the film. In last year's Orphee, the first in the series, Glass used the screenplay of Cocteau's 1949 film as the libretto for a conventional opera, with entirely new music, sets and staging...
...extolling opera as a reflection of a people's cultural identity. "I thought that a truly American opera would be based on African-American music," says Davis. That is precisely what he accomplished in his powerful and biting 1984 work X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X (with libretto by cousin Thulani), a fierce, modernist, free-tonal piece that employs elements of jazz, blues and gospel...
Unfortunately, such glimpses of sharp humor tease but do not deliver. Gilbert's libretto satirizes Victorian England, and his allusions were blunt and meaningful to contemporary audiences. A modern staging also needs some deeper dimension to do justice to the operetta. this Iolanthe shows possibilities but does not explore them; the campiness factor, the battle between sexes, or its interpretation as the first Jungle Fever could all be developed further. As it stands, Fairyland has as much bite as a flat scene on the back of a Crayola box, and the Lords react to its inhabitants the same why they...