Word: mozarts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nunne partly out of satanic excitement and partly because he seems to share the same ideas about what makes life not worth living. (Sorme is working on a book on "the modern sense of dispossession" that sounds remarkably like Wilson's Outsider.) With the help of "a Mozart symphony, a hot frankfurter sausage, the smell of acetone," Gerard sometimes gets "a new grip on being alive...
...painful death, apparently of cancer, in Mexico in 1945-the final scenes accompanied by Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik played by a visiting string orchestra-is described with more good faith than taste; her death seems to have liberated Regler from bitterness and the wish to judge. As a gesture against political bullies back home, Marie Louise once carried a bamboo blowpipe to puff pepper into the eyes of German police; pity had made her, too, willing to blind someone. Symbolically, Regler buried the pepper gun with her in her coffin...
...Today is Mozart's birthday," Boris Goldovsky said Wednesday evening, "and we are dedicating this performance to him as a birthday present." The New England Opera Theater's Cosi is competent and buoyant enough in the singing, rather dry and prosaic in the orchestral playing. Mr. Goldovsky conducts almost every number too fast, but the fine voices and fluent technique of the singers (especially the men--John McCollum, Robert Paul and Ronald Holgate, and Wednesday's Fiordiligi, Marguerite Willauer) go at least a little ways toward rescuing the situation. The staging, also Mr. Goldovsky's, is brisk though not particularly...
...operatic production, but it is an inadequate production of Cosi, for which good intentions are not enough. If it is right to bring Mozart before the public even in slightly marred versions, it is also right to lavish exceptional amounts of care and money on him, and Wednesday night's under-rehearsed orchestra evinced neither. The New England Opera Theater might also remember this when producing Mozart: except for a small amount of recitative, a professional company has no right to cut the operas. Length is no excuse; audiences can easily take three and a half hours of Mozart...
...illustrate what is meant by recitative, Bernstein provides a snatch of opera in the style of Mozart: "Susanna, I have something terrible to tell you/I've just been talking to the butcher/And he tells me/That the price of chicken has gone up three cents a pound!" For Italian-opera lovers he repeats the sequence in Verdian style ("Gilda! II prezzo di polio"), and for unabashed German romantics a snatch of Wagner ("Ach, was ward mir heut' angetan...