Word: orfeo
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Pierre Monteux, 79, French-born conductor, shuttled from the Metropolitan Opera, where he led mellow performances of Faust (and will lead Manon and Orfeo this week), to Carnegie Hall and the Brooklyn Academy of Music for three well-played sessions with the Boston Symphony...
Three of them are serious in tone-lust, envy, and pride. Roberto Rossellini's Envy, based on a story from Collette, is a frightening study of a wife's insane jealousy of her husband's cat. Orfeo Tamburi gives a sensitive portrayal of the artist husband, while Andree Debar powerfully plays the sulking, possessive wife who brings to her marriage little more than her physical appeal...
...hour-and-a-half performance was one more sign of revived interest in the man who stands at the fountainhead of modern musical style. In the past few seasons, Monteverdi's operas Orfeo and Coronation of Poppea and the scenic cantata Battle of Tancred and Clorinda have had concert performances in Manhattan, and record companies-whose search for new repertory material is partly responsible for the revival-have already put out 17 Monteverdi...
...Records For more than a year, Haydn Society musicologists have been busy preparing the score of Haydn's last and never staged opera, Orfeo ed Euridice, for recording-with the society's energetic young (25) H. C. Robbins Landon promising that it would "hold its own alongside Mozart's Don Giovanni" (TIME, Dec. 25). Record buyers last week could judge Landon's estimate for themselves. The society's complete recording of Orfeo, with six soloists and the Vienna State Opera chorus and orchestra under Hans Swarowsky, made six fascinating LP sides...
Unlike Gluck's Orfeo, which is sung by a contralto, Haydn's hero is a tenor. Like Gluck, Haydn saves his most compelling music for Orfeo to sing in Hades, but neither of the lovers is allowed to return to earth. Altogether, Haydn's Orfeo is closer in style to Don Giovanni than to Gluck. It has some of the Don's power and beauty, if not its delightful variety. Performance and recording: good...