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Cranko's work is at its best in extended ballets with strong dramatic substance. Opening the company's three-week New York visit was one of his best, an evening-long interpretation of Pushkin's intensely romantic verse-drama Eugene Onegin. Two nights later, the company presented an even more stunning tour deforce, a balletic version of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. Both were lavishly mounted, eye-filling pieces. Onegin uses a score by Music Director Kurt-Heinz Stolze based on short pieces by Tchaikovsky. The work moves quickly and assuredly through Pushkin...
...society. In the first part, Pushkin and his wife attend Don Giovanni. Pushkin admires Mozart because he, too, was a natural genius, and he admires the Don Juan theme because its hero is a man who "did not take things as they are." Pushkin's most famous poem, Eugene Onegin, is a treatment of that subject, and it is partly on this poem and partly on Byron's Don Juan that Lermontov bases the story that is the second part of the play...
...such easily translatable characteristics as splashy imagery or intellectual abstractions. Its strength lies rather in subtly suggestive tones and rhythms. No less a language snob and stylist than Vladimir Nabokov labored on and off for almost a decade to translate Pushkin's acknowledged masterpiece, the verse novel Eugene Onegin. Nabokov's rendering of this romantic (and mock romantic) panorama of Russian society was brilliant; yet even he decided to settle for strict literalism rather than attempt to re-create in English the Russian poet's verbal music...
GLYNDEBOURNE FESTIVAL (May 3-Aug. 4) combines snob appeal with top-notch opera. New productions of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail spell Cavalli's L'Ormindo and Donizetti's Anna Bolena...
Last week viewers also could watch and listen to the last in a series of unadorned but affecting performances of Bach's six Brandenburg concertos; this week they will see a taped special production of Eugene Onegin. Cathy Come Home, a recent drama about the British housing shortage, so electrified audiences with its high-voltage indictment of bureaucratic bungling that it prompted headline stories in the Times and the Guardian and a political debate. Scolded Opposition Leader Ted Heath: "Government action of the wrong kind can spell out doom for the Cathys of this world...