Word: rogier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Menotti: The Telephone and The Medium (Marilyn Cotlow, Frank Rogier, Marie Powers, Evelyn Keller, Beverly Dame, Catherine Mastice, with orchestra conducted by Emanuel Balaban; Columbia, 20 sides). Menotti's two chamber operas, surprise hits on Broadway last year, have been recorded by the original casts-and hold their original charm and power. Recording: excellent...
Like smart young Composer Gian-Carlo (The Medium) Menotti (TIME, March 3), Britten has written for a small cast and a chamber orchestra so that his opera can be performed easily and often. His newest music is easier to listen to than to sing. Said Baritone Frank Rogier, who sang the role of Seducer Tarquinius: "Any time you sound in tune with the orchestra, you're off. So you go in the other direction." But Britten's insistent, subtle use of rhythmic and dissonant backgrounds put a wallop into Librettist Ronald Duncan's seething play. The opera...