Word: soderstrom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Venetian operas now returning to the international repertory were first revived here only a decade ago under the direction of Musicologist Raymond Leppard. Glyndebourne's current showpieces are the neglected conversational operas of Richard Strauss, Capriccio and Intermezzo. They were staged for the lustrous Swedish Soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom under Administrator Moran Caplat's dictum of "hiring people we know and exploiting them at what they want to do." To succeed retiring Musical Director John Pritchard, Glyndebourne is bringing in Conductor Bernard Haitink. His crisp baton imparts a discipline to this year's production of Pelleas et Melisande...
...performance of the new production, Boulez turned Pelleas into a musical affirmation by treating the drama not as a fairy tale but a human story. Thus he brought passion and pain to a work that all too often seems pale. In the famous scene where Melisande (Soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom) looses her hair over the ardent Pelleas (Tenor George Shirley), Boulez whipped the music to a Tristan-like sexual intensity. Then, at the entrance of Melisande's jealous husband Golaud (Baritone Donald McIntyre), he cut through the sensuality with harsh, jabbing chords, tightening the singing until it strained with barely...