Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many in the audience were not aware of Solti's dilemma. That cannot be said for what happened at La Scala's first night in Washington. The audience filed into the Kennedy Center Opera House to find the pit raised to the level of the stage. "I've never seen that before," said an usher in response to a ticket holder's question. No one had. The pit had been elevated for a rehearsal that afternoon and the hydraulic lift had stuck. While the audience-including Vice President and Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller and Mrs. Giovanni Leone...
...have nothing to guide me but the music. The music leads you across a no man's land of what can be right or wrong on the stage." That could be any stage director making the usual bow to opera in general and the fraternal order of composers in particular...
...when a Caruso would stride forward, plant his feet squarely behind the prompter's box and, as it were, deliver his aria in person. When Strehler puts a soprano at her ease, or when he positions a chorus so that it does not have to shuffle around the stage while performing, he does it with logic and a convincing illusion of action. At his best, he preserves and freshens the essence of an older work. Says he: "That point of contact between past and present is fleeting. Often a 150-year-old opera is like a little flask...
...slightly spaced-out contestant claimed he had an invisible dog, then paraded across the stage with only a leash in his hand. Apart from that, more than 450 pooch owners turned up in Atlanta last week to audition their dogs for a role in Burt Reynolds' next movie, Smokey and the Bandit. The judge was Burt himself, who will play the bandit opposite Sally Field as a hitchhiker and Jackie Gleason as a Texas sheriff who's trying to track him down. Burt's choice as the canine co-star was a two-year-old basset hound...
...stage is set for a bruising grille-to-grille marketing battle. Superficially, GM seems to have picked an odd year to proclaim that less is more. During the 1976 model run, consumers, who had been choosing smaller cars ever since the late 1973 Arab oil embargo, unexpectedly shifted back to the bigger models...