Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earth hung in a cobalt sky like a giant circus balloon. The landscape was dotted with papier-mache roses and lilies and peopled by curly-horned horses, characters in tasseled, clownlike costumes, and a peruked barrister in trailing robes. Thus the surface of the moon appeared to the space dreamers of Franz Joseph Haydn's day, and last week the vision glowed warmly on the stage of The Hague's Royal Theater as part of the Holland Festival. Occasion: the first complete performance since Haydn's time of his opera The World of the Moon (its original...
...last week's performance, Moon proved to be a frolicsome work with a gaily rippling score, evocative of Haydn's more celebrated The Seasons. If it was sometimes as thin as the moon's atmosphere itself, it also offered several rollicking ensembles, a rousing love duet, and a bubbly beat, as if Papa Haydn had been determined to do a gavotte straight into the stratosphere...
...autumn Festival of the Eighth Moon, some five months after Soong's death, his body was gilded by a member of his congregation. A red satin cloak was draped around his gilded shoulders, and he was placed in a glass case...
David Hays has designed suitable movable additions to Rouben Ter-Arutunian's flexible basic stage, so that the swiftly changing geographical demands of the text do not inflict between-the-scenes waiting. Tharon Musser's lighting is admirable, particularly the moon-swept night lighting...
...Hole in the Head"; July 13-18, "Witness for the Prosecution"; July 20-25, "A Roomful of Roses"; July 27-August 1, "A View From the Bridge"; August 3-8, "Wedding Breakfast"; August 10-15, "Therese"; August 17-22, "Middle of the Night"; August 24-29, "The Moon Is Blue...