Word: schauler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...libretto is so outlandish as to be curiously fascinating and, at times, good fun. Based on a Gothic tale by the Russian symbolist writer Valery Bryusov, Angel is set in 16th century Germany and revolves, or rather, rolls around a fetching young damsel named Renata (Soprano Eileen Schauler). Unfortunately, she has an advanced case of the screaming meemies. In the first act she bares her problem in a long aria while writhing around the stage on her stomach...
Prokofiev's score, ably conducted by Julius Rudel, is appropriately dissonant and heavily percussive. Soprano Schauler, whose surmounting of Prokofiev's vocal obstacle course was achievement enough, proved a splendid actress as well. But then, as one who admits to powers of ESP, she was a natural for the role. As for seeing flaming angels, she says she took lessons from her five-year-old son, Jeffrey, who had an invisible playmate named Timothy...
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