Word: macbeth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indeed, he often seems like lago's stringed puppet. His credulity makes him appear less than normally intelligent, and the rapidity with which jealousy races through his veins suggests that he is as much passion's fool as passion's slave. At the end of Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear, the hero has discovered himself. At the end of Othello, the hero has simply unmasked lago and uncovered his own calamitous error. He has been tortured but not tutored by his destiny...
Milnes (pronounced Milnz), who has had practically no European training or experience, made his debut last month at the Vienna Staatsoper in the difficult title role of Verdi's Macbeth. Helped along by the unconventional approach of Stage Director Otto Schenk and Conductor Karl Boehm, Milnes portrayed Macbeth as a victim not of ambition but of passion. The slinky-voiced, erotic Lady Macbeth of Christa Ludwig made the passion understandable. When the curtain fell on Macbeth's death scene, Milnes was rewarded with a 30-minute ovation...
...roles, it limits. On the other hand, you see, I have spent most of my life doing a great deal of classical work as well. You throw a wig and a costume on me and no one would necessarily know the difference. I've done Lear here, and Hamlet, Macbeth, and Othello. The Othello required more make-up for me than the Lear, simply because I had to be made visually black, and have my hair dyed black and teased, which was more work than the Lear, because then I was under so much wig and beard that there...
...young man of 27, Dmitry Shostakovich treated the Soviet Union to a feast of sex, murder and dissonance in his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (revised in 1962 and retitled Katerina Ismailovd). At its first performance in 1934, Joseph Stalin loathed every note of it. He and the Communist Party denounced Shostakovich for his bourgeois musical tastes and, ever since, the composer has been sliding in and out of party favor. Too talented and far too famous to be squelched, he produced symphonies, ballets, choruses, chamber music. He alternately soothed the ultraconservative ears of the commissars with "music...