Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...funniest spectacles to be seen hereabouts in a long time is taking place on the stage of the Wilbur these nights. Count Ory and a dozen knights, all disguised as nuns, gain entrance to a palace in which a countess and her female friends have retreated with Lysistratan resolves while their husbands are off on the Crusades. The men's lecherous aims are temporarily side-tracked when one of them discovers a well-stocked wine cellar; a drunken orgy ensues until the ladies suddenly come on the scene...
...written in a couple of weeks in 1828, is Rossini's penultimate operatic work. He wrote one more opera the next year; and, having reached the Shakespeareanly canonical number of 37 stage works, he suddenly renounced opera writing, coincidentally at the age of 37, and never composed another stage work during the rest of his long life...
...French light opera style for a hundred years. It was the chief stylistic source for the Offenbach comic operas, as well as for the Gilbert & Sullivan ones. But Goldovsky has proven to anyone's satisfaction that it is more than a textbook "influence," that it is an eminently viable stage work today and does not merit the obscurity into which it has fallen, especially when the almost ubiquitous Barber of Seville is not a whit better...
Functioning both as stage director and conductor, Goldovsky has chosen effective blocking and byplay, and keeps the performance moving along at a good pace. His beat is clear and his cueing exemplary (though he ought to curtail his Toscaninian grunting and humming). Nevertheless, the orchestral playing is far from polished. The company can doubtless not afford a sufficient number of orchestral rehearsals; the players are quickly recruited more or less at random from the Union local and thus cannot possibly achieve a nuanced and precise ensemble. I fear nothing can be done about this shortcoming...
...statement last night, the five charged that "the HDC has a responsibility not merely to stage a play, but to present a production that will fulfill minimum artistic standards. We did not feel that this production of The Good Woman of Setzuan would meet the HDC's obligation to its audience...