Word: stuttgart
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Such divergence from the stereotyped passion often associated with Bizet's opera is characteristic of Choreographer John Cranko and his Stuttgart Ballet. Last week the company presented its new Carmen as part of a six-week stand in New York that will be followed by a road tour lasting until August. Cranko had sat through scores of Carmen operas, and he says "I always thought they were all wrong. If you see in Carmen nothing but a nymphomaniac who meets a tenor, seduces him, gets tired of him, then meets a bullfighter-it's a bore." Instead...
Near Perfection. The failure, though disappointing, will hardly dampen the Stuttgart's tour. Ever since Cranko, now 43, took over the company ten years ago, he has been building a formidable repertory of splendid, full-length dramatic works. Romeo and Juliet was his first success, done to the traditional Prokofiev score. Typically, Cranko stripped the story of many a nonessential, involved the whole town of Verona in the clash of families, including a market-square fight with tossed oranges. He skipped the implausible intricacies of Romeo's exile and Friar Laurence's muddleheaded planning and then...
...Cragun (as Kate and Petruchio). Shakespeare's antic frolic, set to a score composed of snatches of Scarlatti music, subtly explores a remarkable range of domestic feeling from dominance to submission and finally to partnership. For Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, the fourth full-length storybook ballet that Stuttgart is offering U.S. audiences, Cranko discards the whole Tchaikovsky opera score in favor of a graceful montage that helps make the ballet a romantic matinee idyll...
Hardly anybody had ever heard of the Stuttgart Ballet-a small dance com pany paid for out of public funds to supply divertissements occasionally interspersed in operas-until the Württem-berg State Theater director, Walter Erich Schäfer, had the insight to hire John Cranko and give him his head in 1961. Cranko started by firing half the dispirited little company he inherited, then went shopping all over the world for incipient talent to train. He also began establishing procedures which are, in the customarily authoritarian world of classical ballet, curiously family-like and informal. Deliberately, Cranko...
...ever farther behind the West in the technologies most essential to future growth?computers, automation, petrochemicals and telecommunications. Nor are Western firms overly eager to rush to Russia's assistance. Fiat's auto plant at Togliatti opened two years late and is still convulsed by bureaucratic and labor difficulties. Stuttgart's Daimler-Benz has backed away from a Soviet invitation to build the world's largest truck factory south of Moscow...