Word: texts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...piano, and by some drastic cutting. Within its limits, however, the production was highly competent. The orchestra sat in the middle of the Sanders stage, while the singers, in modern evening dress, sang on all sides of it. Aside from a reluctance to act as lustily as the text indicated, the cast, headed by Gloria Lane and Jon Crain, gave a good account of itself. The voices were sonorous and the singers pronounced Chester Kallman's translation very carefully. The opera's closing duet, "O Beloved," is one of the most lovely lyrical pieces ever written...
...Embossed with gold, it sparkles with flower-bouquet hues, including the exquisite borage-blossom blue, a pigment so precious that the duke listed two pots of it among his treasures. The queen's handbook was meant to delight as well as instruct. The Nativity (see cut) introduces the text for sunrise prayers, but just in case courtly heads should begin to nod, Artist Jean Pucelle, a Paris illuminator so famed that even Dante sang his praise, spiced it with a troupe of acrobats and a monster king tempting a dog with a colossal jawbone...
...things that are beyond my imagination. The comparison haunts me I can't help feeling that we've let the human race down a little, and yet, what could we have done? The tragedy and anguish of th Hungarian voices on the radio was unforgettable; t he text should be hung on ever American mirror, so we could read...
...nomination, so did the New York Times. (Soon afterward, papers began running instructions on how to pronounce "Lincoln.") The Chicago Times repeatedly misquoted him in its report of the Gettysburg address ("Four score and ten years ago . . ."). To its credit, the New York Times ran a letter-perfect full text of the address (followed by "continued applause"), though the reader could not discover that Lincoln had even spoken at Gettysburg until he had plowed through hundreds of words about the memorial ceremony...
...never a quiet moment. The borrowed sets are very stylish, as are Leo Van Witsen's costumes. The biggest advantage of using Agassiz is that its small size allows most of the words to be heard. The Barber is a perfect opera to do in English, as the witty text stands translation better than do the tragic works of the next century...