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There were drawbacks to watching Pirates at home. Portions of the wide-screen Panavision picture were lost on the small screen. But home viewers did get something theater viewers did not: a half-hour documentary on the history of Pirates and a brochure including a libretto. Moreover, television viewers got the chance to become living-room buccaneers by videotaping the film. Says Neuhauser: "What can Universal do if more than 100,000 prints should be passing from home to home all over...
...Rice's libretto remains an uneven collection to of trite and witty lyrics. The better include a worried Person's lament. "Then again we might be foolish/Not to quit while we're ahead/ For distance leads enchantment and that is why/All exiles are distinguished/ More important they're not dead." And a phalanx of aristocrats admit. "No we wouldn't mind/ Seeing her in Harrod's/But behind the jewelry counter/ Not in front...
...known collectively as the "Concord" Quartets after the ensemble for which they were written, and the Violin Concerto, premiered by Isaac Stern. But his most ambitious rapprochement with the past has come not in instrumental music but in opera. The Confidence Man, with a libretto by Gene Rochberg based on Herman Melville's bleak, cynical novel, is currently on display at the Santa Fe Opera in New Mexico...
...office, it was not the artistic flop that some local critics claimed it was either. Robert Ward's opera Minutes Till Midnight, which took as its theme the moral dilemma of an atomic physicist, is less than exciting, but it has a serviceable tonal score and a singable libretto. Albee's The Man Who Had Three Arms, though wordy, is an intriguing, often hilarious parable about the hazards of fame in the TV age, with excellent performances by Robert Drivas, Patricia Kilgarriff and Wyman Pendleton. Williams' A House Not Meant to Stand lacks focus, particularly...
...production's success is Conductor Riccardo Chailly, 29. Ignoring the dry, detached school of Stravinsky playing that has sprung up in the U.S., Chailly lit into the music with true Italianate gusto. Unfortunately, the mediocre international cast of mostly non-English speakers ensured that the English libretto was a blur...