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TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil listened as two Rayburn lieutenants were running down the list of doubtful members. On one: "The General Services Administration ought to be able to get him." On another: "The Air Force can take care of him." A third? "If you can get the Post Office to issue that special stamp for him, you've got him." And a fourth...
...grimmest situations and somehow getting away with it. Nabucco's weakness is that it has in its score little dramatic unity and that it tends to bog down in mere declamation ("It's one of those stand-up-there-and-sing operas," says Baritone Cornell MacNeil...
...production did little to improve matters. The singing-by Baritone MacNeil in the title role, Soprano Leonie Rysanek and Mezzo-Soprano Rosalind Elias as the evil and good daughters of the King, Bass Cesare Siepi as a Jewish high priest-was generally good but rarely inspired. Conductor Thomas Schippers (who at 30 is the youngest conductor ever to open a Met season) whipped his orchestra through the score at a soprano-searing pace. The sets by Teo Otto and Wolfgang Roth were contradictory in style: an ornate realistic idol in one scene, a starkly abstract grillwork in another. Although...
...Chorus of Clouds, superbly led by Elizabeth MacNeil, collide harshly to produce thunder, gesture formally in their odes, and dance gracefully to pipe and drums in their lovely pastel costumes (by Sheila Finn). And Nick Boone has achieved a wide variety of effects with only nine lights...
...MacNeil's first break was his selection by Gian Carlo Menotti for the role of the husband in The Consul. On Menotti's advice, he studied opera seriously for 2½ years while working nights at a Bulova Watch plant making analogue digital computers. With some misgivings, he finally gave up his $200-a-week job with Bulova to become a regular member of the New York City Opera. MacNeil now specializes in Verdian roles, plans at last to learn Italian. "Once," he recalls ruefully, "I was singing Traviata and flung my hand out because the music felt...