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...Macbeth. The Boston Shakespeare Company witches boil their brew. At the corner of Berkeley and Marlborough Streets in Boston, Thursday and Saturday...
...doubt, that it is Falstaffian. The author's conceit is that Falstaff is now in his 80s. Busily dictating his memoirs, he passes on to a series of horrified clerks his digestive uproars, his sexual fantasies about his pubescent niece and his rages at his cook Macbeth ("Macbeth has murdered sleep, and my digestion"). Falstaff acknowledges that there was a report of his death at the Boar's Head Tavern in Eastcheap some years earlier but explains it as a harmless charade, staged with Mistress Quickly's help, to cool the passions of his creditors...
...politicians who received illegal campaign contributions from Gulf Oil. Though the amount was a piddling $6,000 and Heinz returned the money-insisting that he had originally been unaware of the source-the incident remains very much alive. Green, with his gift for mockery, corrupts one of Lady Macbeth's lines; he quotes it as "Will not all the oil of Arabia wash this blood from my hands?" (while the real language is "All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand"). He then brings down house after house by saying: "I understand each night he [Heinz...
...Association does not hit its stride until the sun seekers' stampede from the Northeast begins, but in its emphasis on big names and traditional works, it sometimes outdoes Dallas. Miami will open with Cesare Siepi in Boris Godunov (Jan. 17). Later on it will feature Sherrill Milnes in Macbeth (March 7), Carole Neblett, along with Domingo, in La Fanciulla del West. In Jackson, Miss., the all-black company Opera/South gives young singers the chance to be heard in standard works (The Flying Dutchman, Elixir of Love). Black composers get their day too. On Nov. 20 Ulysses...
Strehler's directorial premise is so old-fashioned that it seems new. The most important thing he does for singers is to make sure they are placed where they can sing best. If the dramatic situation demands it, he will not flinch from asking Macbeth to sing lying down or Lady Macbeth to sleepwalk across a ledge. But he is never gratuitous about imposing feats of physical endurance. Says Francesco Sicilian!, La Scala's artistic consultant: "He never betrays his material in order to make an audience burst into applause at his daring." Strehler would go along with...