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...festival that both took over a city and took advantage of its architecture and history. During the Menotti era, Spoleto USA benefited and suffered from his increasingly conservative and capricious tastes. There were some noteworthy premieres, such as Arthur Miller's play The American Clock, Martha Clarke's dance Miracolo d'Amore and the Philip Glass-Allen Ginsberg opera Hydrogen Jukebox. But the constant wrangling between Menotti and the festival board-frequently over works the director found objectionable-diminished both Menotti and the festival. As a result, Spoleto USA has never enjoyed the stature of its European counterparts...
...MIRACOLO D'AMORE Clowns and choruses, nudes and birdsong enlivened Martha Clarke's surreal fantasy of love and violence, a montage of painterly and powerful images first seen at the Spoleto Festival U.S.A., in Charleston...
...MIRACOLO D'AMORE. Clowns and choruses, nudes and birdsong enliven Martha Clarke's surreal fantasy, off-Broadway, of love and violence...
...MIRACOLO d'AMORE...
...same complaints might be made about Clarke's Miracolo d'Amore, which is rescued by being exquisitely beautiful. Clarke usually credits a painter with inspiring her imagery. This time it is Tiepolo. But the ancient crone sweeping and cackling, the commedia dell'arte clowns, the quartet of nude women gently interweaving in a dance, the men employing a variety of bird noises, the eerily believable copulation between a girl and a skeleton also bring to mind Cocteau and Gertrude Stein and Picasso and Diaghilev. If more explicitly violent and more frequently nude than necessary, Miracolo is nonetheless a fitting tribute...