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...Olympia, Wash...
Another pity, both in New York and the six other American and Canadian cities Montand will visit on his six-week tour, is that he is booked into such huge theaters. The Metropolitan, for example, seats about 4,000; the Olympia in Paris, where Montand is accustomed to playing, holds only 2,100. The Metropolitan Opera House was designed for grand opera, not intimacy and even Montand's considerable charm is not large enough to fill it, or the other vast halls he will be playing...
...fight to stay alive, smaller brewers have been racing to find merger partners, adding yet more turmoil to the churning industry. Pabst Brewing Co. of Milwaukee, once a leading brewer, has spent the past two months trying to merge with Olympia Brewing Co. of Washington State, while in the process having to fend off takeover attempts by the Wisconsin-based G. Heileman Brewing Co., as well as legal attacks by a dissident Pabst shareholder, Irwin Jacobs. Meanwhile, the Stroh Brewery Co. of Detroit, which acquired New York City's F. & M. Schaefer Co. in 1981, is still struggling...
Hoffmann is best seen as the progression of a soul. There is the comic slapstick of Act I, in which the eponymous poet falls in love with Olympia, a mechanical doll. Next there is the sobering disappointment of Act II, in which the hero falls in love with a faithless Venetian courtesan. Finally, there is the tragic catharsis of Act III, in which Hoffmann's sincere love for the simple, shy singer Antonia is destroyed by the vicious machinations of the evil Dr. Miracle. Each affair should appear to be more intense than the last...
...production illustrates the progression perfectly. The first act-all bright colors and gaily spinning contraptions-is an extended divertissement, with Hoffmann the butt of a joke shared by everyone except him. Olympia, the crowning achievement of Spalanzani's workshop, is obviously a machine, and in a fine, broad comic touch, Director Schenk has the inventor's assistant twist each of her fingers to produce the dazzling coloratura of her famous Doll's Song. The mood turns passionate when Hoffmann meets the sensuous Giulietta, and Schneider-Siemssen's Venice creates an atmosphere of dark mystery, with shadowy...