Word: sullivane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). The Magic Flute, conducted by Bruno Walter, with Amara, Peters, Sullivan, Uppman, Hines...
...Papageno, the comical birdman; partly thanks to Ruth and Thomas Martin's competent translation, he put across his role with almost Broadway-like punch. Soprano Lucine Amara (Pamina) sang beautifully, and Roberta Peters (Queen of the Night) did her bell-like best despite a cold. But Tenor Brian Sullivan (Tamino) was dry-voiced and stiff-backed; Basso Jerome Hines, while he hit all of Sarastro's low notes, failed to be really moving. Not one of the slim, attractive Americans could match the musical excitement so often provided by the Met's derided, plumpish divas...
...music of Joel Mandelbaum acts as more than a bright decoration of the plot since the composer has a really brilliant sense for musical parodies. In the course of the show he spoofs English madrigals and Gilbert and Sullivan patter songs, with a small comment on Bach chorals thrown in between. His talent, however, is no less evident in some warm long songs and the music for the large production numbers. For these ballet scenes, Liz Keen contributes some amazingly expert choreography...
...Sullivan Show...
...hand, contain a huge and difficult role--that of King Richard II himself. Shakespeare presented Richard as a man with considerable personal charm and as a monarch more interested in the trappings of kingship than in its responsibilities. Yet after his deposition by Bolingbroke he achieves tragic stature. D.J. Sullivan's interpretation of Richard captures the weaknesses of the man but does not sufficiently emphasize his final strength. His impression of the king is correctly fickle and full of self-pity, yet at the end Richard emerges more intense and nervous than heroic...