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...Rumanian-born Liviu Ciulei, 62, is the epitome of a world-class director: he has staged films, operas and plays in some five languages and ten countries. Since 1981 he has been artistic director of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and has burnished the company's reputation for accommodating mainstream audiences to unconventional, often fiercely intellectual interpretations of the classics. Ciulei will leave next year to move to New York City and will become a free-lance director. For his final Guthrie season, he has restored the company's tradition of rotating repertory. Among the current offerings: Cyrano de Bergerac...
Aside from a somewhat shaky performance from Rumanian-born Soprano Ileana Cotrubas, who sings Magda, the Lyric's handsome, glittering production is cast with young Americans. Originally presented in 1981 at Pisa's Teatro Comunale G. Verdi, it is directed by Giulio Chazalettes, who might have made more of Rondine's disillusioned subtext and in so doing brought out its richer texture. But as performers gradually realize the opera's possibilities, harder-edged interpretations will no doubt follow...
DIED. Mircea Eliade, 79, Rumanian-born historian of religions, authority on spiritual myths and symbols and longtime (1957-85) professor at the University of Chicago, whose works of encyclopedic research and interpretation, including The Myth of the Eternal Return (1949), The Sacred and the Profane (1959) and his definitive three-volume A History of Religious Ideas (1979-85), introduced to the West an appreciation of Eastern religions and of the parallels of thought and practice in vastly different cultures; in Chicago...
...threat of Soviet expansion have receded in Western Europe's memory, a new generation is uneasy with the perception that the Continent's fate is not in its own hands but in those of the superpowers. There are signs that Eastern Europe too is experiencing a change. Says Rumanian-born Political Scientist Pierre Hassner, a research fellow at Paris' National Foundation of Political Science: "There is a tension between the rigid East-West strategic balance on the one hand and changing popular attitudes and life-styles on the other. The security arrangement has guaranteed four decades of peace, but people...
...picture remains dismal. Freedom of movement and expression are sharply limited, as is the right to travel abroad. Internal movement is subject to police surveillance; censorship is ubiquitous. Many East European cities, despite restoration efforts, still present a gray, depressing sight: unpainted buildings, dingy streets, understocked shops. In the Rumanian capital, Bucharest, queues at food stores form at 3:30 a.m., and "energy police" roam the streets to make sure no one is burning more than one 25-watt light bulb at night . Poland is an even worse basket case, plagued by perennial food shortages and a foreign debt...