Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SHAMELESS OLD LADY. The heroine of this winsome French film is a cheeky septuagenarian who wins a new lease on life when her husband dies. In the title role, French Stage Star Sylvie, 81, develops a yen for TV, movies, horse races and ice-cream sundaes, ends up spending 18 brief but glorious months of self-indulgence before death overtakes...
...Woman Without a Shadow) so excited Richard Strauss that he wanted to be gin composing right on the spot. That was in 1911. It was eight years, however, before the shadow became a reality, and then, despite wide critical acclaim, it was 40 years more before it was staged in the U.S. Trouble was, with all those ships and rocky passes, the technical demands of the fanciful libretto were more than most opera houses could handle, especially the matchbox confines of Manhattan's old Met. Now, with a new stage that could accommodate the Punic Wars...
...Flies. The plot evolves, or rather meanders, in a kind of metaphysical Disneyland setting thick with mountainous stalactites and stalagmites, behind, over and under which lurk new magical wonders to behold. Fog billows, backdrops quaver with psychedelic patterns, a sword springs from nowhere, an orange fountain gushes from center stage, a tenor flies into the flies. The singing, which requires a display of vocal acrobatics that few performers can successfully negotiate, was excellent. Loudest bravas went to Christa Ludwig, whose lusty soprano and hip-swinging histrionics had bite and conviction...
Harvard and the Julliard School of Music will stage two Italian light operas jointly at the Loeb Drama Center this winter...
...Visual Arts Center has completed a series of color slides to be projected onto the stage as part of the backdrop of "Il Combattimento...