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...designs were the first stage settings by the great English sculptor, Henry Moore, 68, and were the sensation of the opening week of the tenth annual Festival of Two Worlds. When the festival director, Gian Carlo Menotti, first suggested the idea, Moore was reluctant. After all, for years he had declined Sir Laurence Olivier's entreaties to design a production of King Lear for Britain's National Theater. But then Moore agreed to let Italian Designer Fiorella Mariani adapt settings from his existing works. When he saw the results, he was so pleased that he immediately...
...charming, energetic ex-composer, firmly controls quality by adjusting the tiniest strokes of stage business and watching nearly every performance. In the belief that "seduction of the audience through the eye is easier than through the ear," he has brought such gifted directors as Jean-Louis Barrault and GianCarlo Menotti to Hamburg to stage his productions; and as a musician, he has persuaded such fellow composers as Hans Werner Henze, Ernst Krenek and Krzystof Penderecki to write new operas for the company...
...Jason, who takes up with Glauce, daughter of King Creon of Corinth; in retribution, Medea kills her two children by Jason, and murders both Glauce and Creon. Magnani's view was that Medea had got the short end of the stick, that Jason was a no-good porco. Menotti did not quite see it that way. "Jason's story is like every Italian man's," he explained. "He is just a tired man who wants to get rid of his mistress and settle down...
...pair so tight he was a sight. When Rouben tinted the pants dark brown, Ruggieri went into a rage. "You ruined them!" he cried. "You dyed them!" "I didn't dye them, I painted them!" huffed Rouben. "I'm a painter, not a dyer!" Moaned Director Menotti: "Why is it that an Englishman is always adjusting his tie, a Frenchman is always checking his pocket for his wallet, and Italians are always showing themselves off in tight pants...
Magnani, undaunted, beamed: "What do you think of the team of Menotti and Magnani on Broadway?" Well, maybe - but for now, Menotti was looking for a little peace and quiet. Said he: "I'm going back home to my dog in Mount Kisco, New York...