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Thomson's creative reputation today rests primarily on his operas -- notably the groundbreaking 1928 Four Saints in Three Acts, to a libretto by Gertrude Stein, and The Mother of Us All (1947) -- as well as on the 1928 Symphony on a Hymn Tune and the film score The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936). But the work that has long intrigued Thomson's admirers is his last opera, Lord Byron, which premiered at the Juilliard School...
Terrence McNally, the playwright of this austerely sentimental journey, is a longtime toiler in the vineyards of the theater who increasingly finds himself the height of hot. His libretto for the Broadway musical Kiss of the Spider Woman won a shower of awards including a Tony; his AIDS teleplay, Andre's Mother, won an Emmy; his domestic tragicomedy, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, has been a hit on both coasts, and Frankie and Johnny became a movie with Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer. In his early hits Next and The Ritz, McNally revealed his fevered comic sense, satiric wit, robust skepticism...
...perhaps the most important reason for Korngold's loss of nerve may be this: despite some sumptuous melodies and opulent orchestration, Heliane is simply not very good. It suffers from an incomprehensible libretto, based on a murky "miracle play" by a minor Expressionist poet, Hans Kaltneker. Korngold's literary instincts were never very sharp, and it was not until he turned to films that his natural dramatic gifts found their true outlet...
...TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Sources: 1 -- A View from Above by Wilt Chamberlain; 2 -- The Man Who Wasn't Maigret by Patrick Marnham (published May 1993); 3 -- Don Giovanni libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte...
Music Class. First period, 8 a.m. "Could we sing?" asks Khalilah. But Ms. Banks, a tall woman, wearing a scarf and a draping black dress, presents the class with part of the libretto from the opera "Carmen" to read silently...