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...characterization. The opera focuses on Yerma with such single-mindedness that only an extraordinary singing actress-and such types are rare-could bring it off. Poulenc made the same demand in La Voix Humaine, Jánaček in The Makropulos Case, Cherubini in Medea, Richard Strauss in Salomé and Elektra. All in some degree have paid the price in lack of performances. Yerma needs a soprano who can act like Maria Callas and sing like Leontyne Price. In Santa Fe it had Mirna Lacambra, a young Spanish soprano with a red-velvet voice but an acting style...
...shall never be faithful to men," the great Russian beauty Lou Andreas-Salomé confided to her diary. It was a vow she kept. Her passions, she felt, were too grand for any one man, even a Nietzsche or a Rilke. When she was deprived of a lover one night, she compensated by eating one of his letters. One man once favored by Lou, recounting the affair 50 years later, was still dazzled. "There was something terrifying about her embrace," he recalled; "elemental, archaic. She was completely amoral and yet very pious, a vampire and a child...
...Salom Alarmed...
After two years at the university, Rilke tagged about Europe for a while with an old girl friend of Nietzsche's, Lou Andreas-Salomé. Then he settled down in an art colony in Worpswede, Germany, where he met and married Clara Westhoff, a handsome young sculptress. Suddenly the poet's constitutional melancholy grew acute. He had discovered that he could not keep a wife and a muse at the same time. The wife graciously bowed out; Rilke went off to Paris, where in 1905 he became private secretary to Sculptor Auguste Rodin...
...father, the headman, is willing to go along with this old unauthorized valley custom, but Salom is not. When the lovers escape together, they find themselves bedded down forever in a blizzard...