Word: passaggio
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This is what Berio, 42, has been driving at in all his work. To him, what counts is man's civilized conscience. His best previous theatrical works-Laborintus, Circles, Passaggio-were promising examples of music as a "social act." At first, he explored opera, since it seemed to him that it offered the best form for social comment. Now he has no use for it. "As a musico-dramatic form, opera is completely useless," he says. In Sinfonia, Berio suggests a new kind of dramaturgy encompassing music, drama, word sounds and, eventually, lighting and stage effects. Other composers have...
...Berio's Passaggio had an immediate and ferocious impact which the stylized manner of the Monteverdi could not even approach. The multilingual text was mostly unintelligible, but apparently Passaggio portrays the "passage" of a single character, called "She," at odds with and seemingly at the mercy of a heartless and mindless society, represented by choruses next to the stage and at the sides of the house. The hostility of the chorus was evident from the moment its opening hisses, murmurs, and shouts began to fill the darkened theatre, while both Her helplessness and humanness came through largely from Miss Mandac...
...operas, Monteverdi's "II Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda" and Lueiano Berio's "Passaggio," open tonight at the Loeb Drama Center. The operas, in the American premier, are being produced through the cooperation of the Julliard School of Music, The Carpenter Center, and the Loeb...
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