Word: recitatif
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...show turns out to be less momentous for U.S. audiences, it may be because its one very cleverly worked-out joke grows old pretty fast. After you get past the shock of hearing arias filled with X-rated insults and recitatif with lines like "A weird thing happened/When I went to take a leak ...," the show doesn't have much of anywhere to go. To be sure, Jerry goes to hell in Act II, where he is host of a show featuring Satan and Jesus--but our hearts are still with those angst-filled transsexuals and diaper fetishists back...
Bizet's pulsing score remains intact-unswung, unsyncopated, unsentimentalized. (The recitatif has been ripped out, but Bizet did not write it: Carmen was originally a musical drama, not grand opera). Carmen's vivid plot remains unchanged. So does the inner nature of its people. But the scene of Carmen Jones is a U.S. Southern town where hip-swaying, head-tossing Carmen Jones works in a parachute factory. The Don José who wins her, loves her, loses her and kills her is a harassed M.P. corporal named Joe. The Micaela who loves and loses him is country-bred...
...moved rapidly, and mingled with my fellows so that I couldn't be singled out and booted. I was a little too flustered to listen when he lights were shooting up, but I have a vague remembrance of hearing a surprised and un-operatic note creep into Martinelli's recitatif when the scene suddenly changed from evening to high noon with no plausible excuse...
...Cantate, "Le Berger Fidele." (a) Recitatif--Air Plaintiff; (b) Recitatif--Air Gai; (c) Recitatif--Air Vif et Grascieux. (Soprano, flute, violin, violoncello, and harpsichord...
Soprano, flute, viola da gamba and harpsichord. -- Rameau.-- Cantate, "Le Berger fidele." I. Recitatif.--Air plaintif. II. Recitatif.--Air gai. III. Recitatif.--Air, vif et gracieux...