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...Trina Leas, 13, knows the rap against summer camp. "Fool, forget that," friends tell her. "That's stupid." They would rather have her hang out with them on the streets of Peoria, Illinois. But Trina's experience last summer at Peoria's Camp Neighborhood House opened up another side to her life. She hiked and made candles and found time to reflect on a slain classmate. In a letter she wrote, "The shot went off and hit DeWayne in the side and he fell to the ground and his guts were hanging out and he was trying to put them...
...wife Trina is played by Julia Kiley, who hits some of the more pathos-laden notes in songs such as "I Felt him Slipping Away" and "Breakfast over Sugar" as she tries to keep Marvin from leaving her. As Marvin's high school teacher, Rosemary Loar is generally funny in her over-the-top characterizations of the schoolmarmish yet sexually hungry Mrs. Goldberg, but her voice occasionally seems too thin. Julie Dixon seems less adept than the other two women in switching between being Marvin's high school sweetheart and being one of the chorus: while Loar and Kiley...
...FORTUNE-TELLERS by Lloyd Alexander, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman (Dutton; $15). In Cameroon a young carpenter consults the town fortune- teller. "You're going to pay me a nice fee," the seer predicts. What he doesn't foresee is that the laborer will end up as the town fortune-teller. This ingenious adventure suggests the magic of the Arabian Nights...
...McTeague -- by Bolcom's longtime collaborator Arnold Weinstein and director Robert Altman -- relates the action in spare, simple prose. McTeague (tenor Ben Heppner), a powerful brute who has set up shop as an unlicensed dentist in San Francisco, falls in love with his best friend Marcus Schouler's girl, Trina (soprano Catherine Malfitano, in a marvelously sensual performance). After Trina wins $5,000 in a lottery -- and McTeague's practice is ruined when the jealous Marcus (baritone Timothy Nolen) reports him to the authorities -- the relationship sinks slowly into a morass of miserliness and sexual dysfunction. Driven nearly mad, McTeague...
Altman, whose only previous operatic staging was a 1983 Rake's Progress at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, proves to be an ideal directorial choice. Especially noteworthy is Trina's erotic soliloquy as she lies in bed showered with her gold pieces, a latter-day Danae. And surely the opening scene of Act II, in which the maid Maria (mezzo Emily Golden) hymns the joy of wealth while experiencing the joy of sex up against a fence, is an operatic first...