Word: rakings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adventurous Santa Fe Opera is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a season that includes such rarities as Paul Hindemith's News of the Day, Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress and Richard Strauss's Daphne. But, a few individual performances aside, it has been a dry operatic summer in the Southwest...
...that Hindemith's great Mathis der Maler-a work that really deserves revival-is, but Lou Galterio's madcap staging made it lively and Bruce Ferden's energetic conducting kept the evening humming. No amount of stage magic by Director Bliss Hebert, however, could save The Rake's Progress, the most depressing waste of a good libretto (by W.H. Auden and Chester Kailman) in 20th century opera. Neither Soprano Elizabeth Hynes' touching Anne Trulove nor Raymond Leppard's sympathetic work with the orchestra could raise the music above Stravinsky's cynically pedestrian level...
...example, consulting can bring in as much as $200 an hour, and one member of the department says that some of his colleagues earn as much as half of their incomes by doing non-University work. In 1975, it was estimated that a Business School professor could easily rake in $10,000 annually from just 20 days on the road. But most feel that the monetary incentives are often overstressed. "Do you like to eat to keep from starving or because you like eating?" one professor asks. "If a person's primary interest were pecuniary, he wouldn...
...common theme was not World War I (though with effort all the pieces can be connected to it) but the devices of British Artist David Hockney, 43, who presided over the visual aspects of the show. Hockney, noted for his sophisticated, figurative paintings, has done successful productions of The Rake's Progress and The Magic Flute at the Glyndebourne Festival. Here he triumphs when he concentrates on conjuring up a vivid, magical spectacle. When he reaches for social comment, he fails. These diaphanous Gallic conceits cannot be made into Oh! What a Lovely...
...rake of renown, Plume stirs the love of Silvia (Laurie Kennedy), who disguises herself in male uniform and eventually hooks him. Plume's best friend, Mr. Worthy (Frank Maraden), is led a mad matrimonial chase by a haughty heiress named Melinda, played in an impish comic vein by Laura Esterman. Bumpkins, worldlings, gulls and wits populate the evening. Toward the end of the play, it becomes evident that Plume is not a womanizing gourmand, as he pretends to the world, but a moonstruck child of sentiment who has found in the chaste but frolicsome Silvia his true heart...