Word: tancredie
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This weekend Harvard and the Juilliard School of Music collaborated on a Loeb production of two "experimental" works of musical theatre, one from the 1620's and one from the 1960's. The first of these, Claudio Monteverdi's II Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, is a kind of stage cantata. A narrator describes and comments on a fight between Tancredi and Clorinda, while they act out the battle, occasionally singing a phrase or two themselves. In this production, Robert Jones as the narrator, Alan Titus as Tancredi, and Evelyn Mandac as Clorinda all sang excellently, although some of Miss...
...operas, Monteverdi's "II Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda" and Lueiano Berio's "Passaggio," open tonight at the Loeb Drama Center. The operas, in the American premier, are being produced through the cooperation of the Julliard School of Music, The Carpenter Center, and the Loeb...
...role of Tancredi, danced by Nureyev, was conceived as the only flesh-and-blood character on stage; the rest of the roles were grim and ghostly reflections of his troubled personality. To achieve a fittingly "queasy-uneasy" setting for the journey into the subconscious, Australian Set Designer Barry Kay studied various plants under a microscope, then conjured a shadowy, organic world streaked with veins like a bloodshot eyeball. Into this membranous setting, Tancredi is symbolically born, wobbling to life to face his first crisis. It comes in the form of two female images representing sacred and profane love. Torn between...
...dense without being deep, an anemic, meandering work that undercut rather than underscored the choreography. Nureyev was forced to keep one foot in the classical past while trying to step into the future with the other. It was enough to make a schizo of a choreographer, let alone a Tancredi...
...critics, while baffled about the meaning of it all, generally agreed that in Tancredi, Nureyev displayed a new and fascinating side of his talent that is as up to date as tomorrow...