Word: lovelornness
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Though the finale of Act I, where a duet becomes a trio and then a quartet, is the opera's grandest moment, there are more musical gems in Act II. This is true partly because the orchestra's role becomes more important: it offers sympathy for the lovelorn Nemorino. Adina's emotional volatility is manifest in ever-higher notes and ever-wider leaps. Turay and Saffer, by far the most talented singers in the production, were brilliant throughout. His rendition of "Una furtiva lagrima" got more applause than any other aria; her passionate confidence in the panacea...
...gives a powerful and richly textured performance as Rosalind, the heroine around whom the rest of the play revolves. It's a tremendous responsibility which she handles with grace, strength and wit. Ryan McKittrick, as her romantic counterpart Orlando, gives his character all the charming hot-headedness and lovelorn sincerity required by the role, and the chemistry between him and Zimmett is appropriately erotic. And Samara Levenstein gives a notable performance as the alternately sweet and sharp-edged Celia, Rosalind's cousin and companion throughout the play...
...night shift not only is as mod as tomorrow's couture, it also serves as a nostalgia trip through what has been Asia's freest colony. Here are a cool killer-drug queen (veteran stunner Brigitte Lin) and an indefatigable ingenue (pop pixie Faye Wang) exercising their wiles on lovelorn guys--all caught in Wong's murky, slo-mo camera eye. The twilight, late-night and hangover dawn of a civilization has rarely looked so ravishing...
...Richard Powers (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). The Galatea in this reworking of the myth is not a statue but an enormously complicated network of computer circuitry that, on a bet, is being taught to think. The Pygmalions--there are a couple of them--are an acerbic cyber-scientist and a lovelorn novelist named (hmm?) Richard Powers. A scheme that might seem mechanical and too clever works out instead to be humane and thoughtful and, when the computer is troubled by 3 a.m. brooding ("What race am I? What races hate me?"), surprisingly moving...
...said, one shouldn't romanticize the past. And a closing thought: If Marty, the lovelorn butcher from Chayefsky's teleplay, and his best friend Angie were to fall through a tear in the space-time continuum and wind up in 1995, they wouldn't have to run through their memorably aimless conversation: "What do you feel like doing tonight?" "I don't know, what do you feel like doing?" Today they'd just turn on The Simpsons or Larry Sanders or NYPD Blue and enjoy the best that contemporary American entertainment has to offer. What they would make of Dennis...