Word: operas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BRITTEN: PAUL BUNYAN (Virgin). Sir Benjamin's tuneful first opera was conceived in 1939 as a Broadway show with a libretto by W.H. Auden. It never played the Great White Way, but it comes to life under Philip Brunelle's baton...
Cage has worked on other compositions in which randomness guides the musical program. In his most recent operas, "Europeras 1 and 2," he says, "the story exists only in the program. It is a collage of all operas, which makes it funny. It covers many different areas, like a circus-opera, a Hellzapoppin...
...promoter said tickets for the Friday nightconcert in Boston's Opera House were not sold out,but might have been if students had known it wastheir only chance to see Bragg. He said Bragg wasmore concerned about his fans' disappointment andthe ticket money than he was with attempting legalaction...
...MIKADO (PBS, Oct. 28, 9 p.m.). Director Jonathan Miller turns the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta into a Marx Brothers-style musical in this English National Opera production, which opens the Great Performances season...
Soon, Toulon meets Sister Marguerite, a nun who is frustrated in her attempts to get raped. Heather Gunn, as Marguerite, gives the play's best performance. Shrill and shrewd, Gunn glides from comedy to tragedy to opera, landing squarely on top of each one. She even gets Howells' grumpy Toulon to smile on occasion...