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...operatic dreadnought -- playwright David Henry Hwang, choreographer Quinny Sacks, set designer Robert Israel and director David Pountney are also aboard -- manages to embrace not only the explorer's first trip to the New World but also the electric dreams of Stephen Hawking, the arrival of aliens on Earth during the Ice Age, and humanity's conquest of space. Characters sing suspended in outer space, sets soar through the air like rocket ships, and the hydraulic stage heaves like waves in a storm, propelling the extraterrestrials and Columbus' crew alike toward their unknown destinations. With a commissioning fee to Glass...
...Goodbye to the warm part of my heart"), and the vast inner space of the Met renders the words nearly unintelligible (surtitles, anyone?). Although some of the coups de theatre are striking -- the wheelchair-bound Scientist intones the prologue while floating beyond the rings of Saturn -- too many of Pountney's and Israel's images seem to have washed ashore from Wilson's incomplete magnum opus, the CIVIL warS...
...Director Jonathan Miller's production of Puccini's Tosca set during World War II and played in the style of one of Hollywood's gritty, black-and-white melodramas of the period. Earlier this season, the same company presented a Mad Max version of Bizet's Carmen by David Pountney that replaced castanets and mantillas with feral children darting amid junked American automobiles. In Paris, Producer Seth Schneidman staged Strauss's Elektra as a dream-theory psychodrama, freely mixing images of Greek antiquity and 19th century Europe...
...Pountney's Carmen took an even more radical view. Rather than discovering a parallel setting, the director simply created one, reveling in the anachronism. The gypsy girls, now prostitutes, conducted their business in the back seats of cars, and the bullfighters in the final act made their entrance in motley cholo low riders. So far, so shocking -- but only if one believes that Carmen is about the working conditions in Spanish cigarette factories, instead of sexual obsession, violence and death. In fact Pountney did not go far enough. Micaela -- a character not found in Merimee's gritty original novella...
Last week the Worker's, publisher, dormousy Edward Pountney, was in court to defend the suit. He pleaded "fair comment" under the British Press Law, but no sooner had the trial started than it became obvious that the T. U. C. leaders were determined to expose what they claimed was the Worker's Muscovite background. Sir Walter testified that in the first fortnight of the war the Worker suddenly changed its policy of supporting Labor against Hitlerism, began calling the war imperialistic. Who ordered the change? "Moscow," said Sir Walter Citrine. Who financed the Worker to the tune...
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