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...most significant artistic achievement was the opera itself, which Mr. Goldovsky and a similar cast lied presented for the first time in America at Tanglewood last summer. Like several other Mozart operas, notably "Cosi Fan Tutte," "Idomeneo" is a diamond lying neglected amidst the track of the nineteenth century. The orchestral passages are exceptional even for Mozart, and the choral writing is superior to that in his more famous operas. As presented in Mr. Goldovsky's adaptation, the first act was highly conventionalized and contained too much plot exposition in the form of recitative--arias were scarce, in fact...
...Anguish. In the tiny, clapboard opera theater at Tanglewood, Idomeneo was a joy to hear. Wrote the New York Times's Critic Noel Straus: "For its astounding choral writing alone, Idomeneo would be worthy of frequent hearings. No two of the choruses are alike. . . . Never was Mozart to write a finer operatic ensemble than the great quartet in this opera...
Under the direction of Boris Goldovsky, famed lecturer and concert planist whose knowledge of operate technique is well known, to his Saturday afternoon radio audiences. Tanglewood is offering a unique chance for young conductors and directors to train. "If a pianist needs a piano to practice, how can one expect an opera director to learn without actors!" explains the cherubic Goldovsky. Equipped as he is with a large group of competent student singers, he is able to give his embryo conductors and directors their necessary workouts...
...opera singer must learn to act" is one of the guiding principles propounded to students in the practice sheds and barns at Tanglewood. In fact, singing technique is taught here only as an incidental factor to staging...
...Tanglewood's young singers have ample talent to rise in their profession; this talent they have brought with them to the school. But here they are finding more: a new school of opera staging, new ideas, new interpretations. Here they are laying the foundation on which what is perhaps the most spectacular of musical media may rise to new heights...