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When public utility repair crews digging at a busy Mexico City street corner in February made their find, it created an instant sensation. Rumors arose that the long-lost treasure of Montezuma II, the Aztec emperor at the time of the Spanish conquest, had finally been located. As archaeologists roped off the site, indignant Mexicans protested: "We have a right to the gold. We pay our taxes...
Specifically, it was The Button in Fort Lauderdale where last Wednesday afternoon an assorted group of Crimson undergraduates made Montezuma's revenge pale by comparison...
After a prolonged sit, though, one usually returns to the front with either Montezuma's revenge or a stomach cavity the size of Brazil...
...Crucible, which opened in New York at the very beginning of 1953, was the first historical drama by Miller to face the public (he had written Montezuma, a play about the conquest of Mexico, immediately following his graduation from the University of Michigan in 1938; but it has, I believe, never been performed, or even published...
Until last week, Montezuma had been performed only once-and poorly -over a decade ago at The Deutsche Oper in West Berlin. Among those in the audience, however, was Caldwell, and ever since she has been patiently trying to get the money together to stage the opera in Boston. Montezuma is indisputably twelve-tone music's finest hour on the operatic stage. Whether it finds its way into the standard repertory or, like Berg's Wozzeck (which it rivals), stays on the fringes, is something only the years can determine. For now it is enough that Montezuma...