Word: operettas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite its seeming effort to imitate operetta, Umbrellas is essentially pure fable, cleverly edged with pessimism. By exercising a stylistic savoir-faire that saucily regards faults as virtues, Director Jacques Demy transforms it into a film of unique and .haunting beauty. Suspended in silvery rain above a cobblestone street, the camera peers down at a crimson umbrella that is soon jostled by others into a colorful mosaic. Again, the tumbling of carnival masqueraders past a plate-glass window adds ineffable poignancy to Actress Deneuve's tranquil blonde perfection as she waits for Guy. And in her wedding scene, wearing...
...Graham Greene novel, Grotewohl, as leader of the Social Democratic Party in the Soviet Zone after World War II, had one brief moment of importance. He used it to ally the Social Democrats to the Communists, symbolized in his famous walk from the right of an East Berlin operetta theater in 1946 to shake hands center-stage with Communist East German President Wilhelm Pieck. The gesture gave Moscow the façade of legality that it wanted to create the German Democratic Republic in East Germany. Though Grotewohl got the premiership as his reward, Ulbricht and Moscow thereafter ignored...
...quarters for the Gilbert and Sullivan Players include costume workshops as well as rehearsal space with a piano. It is expected that these facilities will serve as a "springboard" for all productions in the newly renovated Agassiz Theatre, according to Herbert J. Motley '65, president of the operetta group...
BACH: CANTATA NO. 211 (Nonesuch). Wearing his worldly wig, Bach wrote a miniature operetta called the Coffee Cantata. A father threatens every punishment to save his daughter from vice, but she persists: "If I don't get my coffee three times a day, I'm like a piece of dried-up meat." Coffee, she sings, is "better than a thousand kisses." A gay sprig of baroque music, the cantata is given an airy and stylish performance by the soloists, chorus and chamber orchestra of Radio Berlin...
...purists will point out that the Victorian never-never-land of the operetta and the memorable songs deserve most of the credit, but last night's show was a better than main-run performance. Carol Schechtman's direction departs from the traditional background, and with good effect. The small stage never seems cluttered, even with the full cast dancing. The blocking is put to best use in the first act finale, and if the dancing is two-step rich, it is spirited and colorful...