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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...
...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...
...confirmed rumors that it is indeed negotiating with the Soviets to build what would be the world's largest truck plant on the banks of the Kama River, 560 miles east of Moscow. The West German automaker also announced that Soviet Automobile Minister Aleksandr Tarasov will go to Stuttgart later this month to discuss the project. As a spokesman for Daimler-Benz put it: "Good economic relations can be the foundation for improvement of the political situation...
John Keats, it is said, used to take pepper just for the delight given by a freshwater chaser. Perhaps with a similar contrast in mind Jeffrey treats audiences to Pineapple Poll, a rarely seen romp created 19 years ago by John Cranko, now the director of the Stuttgart Ballet, to music of Sir Arthur Sullivan. Cheerful girls in peppermint stripes and ruffled panties collide with beerful British tars from H.M.S. Hot Cross Bun. Pineapple Poll herself appears and falls helplessly in love with Captain Belaye, an officer who combines the best qualities of Ralph Rackstraw, Captain Corcoran and Sir Joseph...
Stars from Stuttgart. Cranko's company has chosen to concentrate on three full-length works, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet and Eugene Onegin, all richly staged and costumed and all choreographed by Cranko. He handles large groups of dancers with remarkable dramatic effect. But the Stuttgart Ballet has been devastating audiences all across the U.S. mainly because of the dancing of two new stars, Marcia Haydée and Richard Cragun...