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...frantic search for emotional connection. The New York City landscape of August is littered with suicides, failed marriages, estranged children and an assortment of ambivalent sexual identities. The one successful relationship is built between two women: Dawn Henley, 18 at the outset, an orphaned college student, and Dr. Lulu Shinefeld, her fortyish psychoanalyst. In classic Freudian fashion, the patient seeks a surrogate parent. The analyst, a divorcee and failed mother, comes to view her patient as a surrogate daughter. Each woman uses the analytic relationship to relive, and make up for, errors that were made in their other lives outside...
...child called Daddy and Mommy. (To aggravate matters, Dawn switched those names around as a schoolgirl after learning that mommies stayed home like her aunt and daddies worked like the girlfriend.) Though any first-year psych major could offer a working hypothesis of what went wrong, Dawn and Lulu spend endless sessions on the long search for revelation. The ideology of the trek is Freudian, yet its contrived sexual oddities are not plumbed for meaning; they are treated as ordinary, which has a preachy effect of consciousness raising...
Most titillating are the stories recounted by Haile Selassie's personal aides, like the keeper of the dog Lulu, which regularly irrigated the shoes of officials who danced attendance on the Emperor. Recalled the keeper: "I had to walk among the dignitaries and wipe the urine from their shoes with a satin cloth. This was my job for ten years." The function of another aide was to act as the monarch's animated timepiece, bowing several times as "a signal to His Perspicacious Majesty that one hour was ending and that the time had come to start another...
...Tosca and Die Meistersinger. But an opera house must also be active in reviving worthy pieces and commissioning new ones. Under Levine's artistic administration, the Met has successfully explored new territory in such operas as Poulenc's fervid Dialogues of the Carmelites, Berg's thorny Lulu, Kurt Weill's sardonic Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and the ebullient French triple bill Parade. In standard works, such as Verdi's Don Carlo and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, the company has used the latest scholarship to offer versions that are as musicologically...
...libretto, drawn from Jakob Michael Lenz's 1776 play, concerns the seduction and degradation of a middle-class girl, Marie, by a group of soldiers, among others. The opera's connections with Berg's Wozzeck and Lulu are obvious. Wozzeck too is about soldiers and their sordid love lives and has a heroine named Marie; like Die Soldaten, it is constructed in 15 self-contained, even aphoristic, scenes. Lulu-like Die Soldaten, a twelve-tone opera-similarly features a heroine who ends up a common prostitute. Zimmermann deliberately invoked the shade of his illustrious predecessor; the challenge...