Word: olympion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turmoil of the 1960s, exploring dislocations between generations, races and cultures. Lev, a Russian dissident, joins his family in the U.S. after 20 years of imprisonment. He finds that his disaffected son Yuri is entangled through a girlfriend in a feud with a Muhammad Ali-like superstar named Olympion. The feud erupts in a ritualistic race riot in which Yuri is nearly killed. Under its impact, all the relationships in the opera are splintered into despair and confusion...
...company's director, Sarah Caldwell. She staged the action scenes vividly, with swirling movement, loud speakers, sirens and flashing lights and kept the quiet moments simple and suit ably spacious in their loneliness. The cast - including Richard Fredricks as Lev, Jake Gardner as Yuri and Curtis Rayam as Olympion - sang with conviction. Two in particular matched the aplomb of Caldwell's conducting: Arlene Saunders, in lustrous voice as Nadia, and Cynthia Clarey, warmly sympathetic as a nurse who serves as a peacemaker...
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