Word: moone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opera choice, Menotti's The Consul, was most timely in view of recent events in Hungary. No less timely was this year's selection, in view of the announcement that the U.S. will attempt three lunar explorations this fall: Jacques Offenbach's musical fantasy, The Voyage to the Moon (1875). This was the American premiere of the work, and the first production of the newly-formed Boston repertory company, The Opera Group. The work was given in a brilliant English adaptation, complete with two full-blown ballets (on the front and back of the moon), and was hilariously staged...
Cape Cod, always a pleasure playground in the summer, has many outstanding companies, including the Provincetown Players, appearing at the Playhouse on the Wharf. The Players open on July 3 with A Moon for the Misbegotten, and continue through the season with The Climate of Eden (July 14-19), The Family Reunion, Separate Tables (July 28-Aug. 2), The Emperor Jones (Aug. 4-9), The Summer's Treason (Aug. 11-16), and The Millionairess...
...Hans Hotter, Karl Schmitt-Walter, Helmut Graml, Paul Kuèn, Peter Lagger; the Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch; Angel, 2 LPs). German Composer Carl Orff's second opera (1938) is a modern retread of the Grimm fairy tale about four villagers who steal the moon from neighbors, carry it to their graves, finally lose it to St. Peter, who hangs it in the sky to light "the men who still wait in the little garden of the earth." The fragmented, intermittently lyrical score contains snatches of gutbucket jazz and such unorthodox sonorities as a chorus...
While Noah and family were constructing their ark last week, a crew of ballet dancers in goggles and aprons was busy on a Boston stage, pounding together a Victorian-styled spaceship for a nostalgic trip to the moon. The occasion: the U.S. premiere of Jacques Offenbach's minor operetta Voyage to the Moon, based on Jules Verne's yarn. First performed in Paris in 1875, Offenbach's Voyage caused a momentary sensation among premature space bugs, then disappeared from the repertory and has rarely been seen since. The story, as revived by the newly formed Boston Opera...
Impresario Menotti could also count some other audience successes: a curtain-raising production of Verdi's early, daringly experimental Macbeth, given a sharply profiled, showily romantic reading by Conductor Schippers; a tensely moving performance of Eugene O'Neill's Moon for the Misbegotten; four "chamber ballets" by Choreographer John Butler. Still to come: Wisconsin-born Composer Lee Hoiby's opera The Witch, Florentine Composer Valentino Bucchi's Il Giuoco del Barone, the Daudet-Bizet L'Arlésienne...