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Musically, this lugubrious narrative is etched in a jaggedly dissonant score that takes Composer Ginastera even farther out than the twelve-tone serialism of his 1964 opera Don Rodrigo. Ginastera stacks up thick instrumental clusters, punctuates them with short, stabbing chords, sometimes uses what he calls "clouds," in which orchestra and singers improvise rhythmically suspended, ever-shifting textures. At various points in the piece, the string players clatter their bows on their instruments, the brassmen blow air tonelessly through their mouthpieces, the woodwinds bend notes into piercing quartertones. A 24-voice chorus in the pit sometimes comments on the action...
...name" singer, if any, in Miss Caldwell's production was Mexican operetta star Placido Domingo, who sang the title role of Ginastera's Don Rodrigo with the New York City Opera this season. As Hippolyte, his lyric tenor projected warmly and well controlled, with little hollowness or break between registers. Unfortunately, he is no Bergonzi; Domingo's sound is marked by continual tightness and lack of real ring. Perhaps his singing on unfamiliar French vowels was part of the problem. His acting usually remained typically tenoristic; that is, non-existent. But Domingo's forthcoming reappearance (opposite Renata Tebaldi...
...keeping with the pioneering spirit that has become the company's credo, the opening production was the U.S. premiere of Argentine Composer Alberto Ginastera's fiercely modern Don Rodrigo. Set in 8th century Spain, the opera chronicles the rise of a headstrong young king and, after he has had the bad taste to violate and jilt the daughter of a comrade in arms, his subsequent fall. The performance, honed by five weeks of 13-hour-a-day rehearsals, was excellent. The starkly stylized sets and costumes complemented the jaggedly atonal score; the acting and singing were superb...
Complex Tapestry. Yet as opera, Don Rodrigo was something less than a torrid success. Ginastera's score, based on a twelve-tone scale and structured after the manner of Alban Berg's groundbreaking 1921 masterwork, Wozzeck, struck the ear but not the heart. It was a complex musical tapestry, flecked with startled tones of brass and wood wind and splotched with splashes of percussion. In total, the score failed to achieve the delineation of character and dramatic thrust that distinguish great opera from good. Don Rodrigo was nonetheless an adventure worthy of the underwriting (by Mrs. John...
...Congress, has boosted top personal in come taxes to 43%. Old industrial incentive tax exemptions (some as long as 25 years) will be examined, perhaps renegotiated. To make it all harder to swallow-but sounder by half-he appointed as chief tax collector a bright young U.S.-trained economist, Rodrigo Núñez, 29, who immediately sent auditors to check the books of the country's biggest companies...