Word: rodrigo
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...Mefistofele a a space-age sonet lumière production in which the devil seemed about to vanquish the music of the spheres until he was whistled down at final curtain. Contemporary operas seldom fare well with the public, but Alberto Ginastera's atonal, astringent Bomarzo and Don Rodrigo are successful items in the repertory...
...then revenges herself by arranging his murder. In the end, she is found out, tortured on the rack, beheaded. Not a libretto to every composer's taste, naturally, but just the thing for the savage, harshly dissonant musical style already familiar , from Ginastera's equally grim Don Rodrigo and Bomarzo...
Vacant Eyeballs. The composer's champion in the U.S. is Julius Rudel, who has conducted both Rodrigo and Bomarzo as director of the New York City Opera. Now music director of the Kennedy Center as well, he conducted the Cenci, and was uncommonly adroit in defining the multiple layers of orchestral sound with which Ginastera's score seeks to suggest, say, the schizophrenic, as he explores the passions and fears of one of his characters. But that was nothing compared with the multiple-screen images-slides and film of doomed faces, vacant eyeballs, writhing bodies, running women-that...
Superstar occupies the same assimilative position in the pop world that Ginastera's Don Rodrigo does in serious opera. Webber and Rice do not outdo the Beatles or the Rolling Stones or the Edwin Hawkins Singers, Prokofiev, Orff, Stravinsky or any other musical influence found in their work. But they have welded these borrowings into a considerable work that is their own. Tommy (TIME, June 22) was the first, flawed suggestion that rock could deal with a major subject on a broad symphonic or operatic scale. Superstar offers the first real proof. William Bender
...National Opera. That same year he sang opposite Joan Sutherland in Lucia di Lammermoor with the Dallas Civic Opera. Then came an offer from the Israel National Opera in Tel Aviv. Nearly 300 performances later, Rudel signed Domingo and gave him the title role in Ginastera's Don Rodrigo at the February 1966 opening of the company's new home in Lincoln Center. Domingo...