Word: turk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francis Barnard, the poet, and David Lloyd who played Narciso, the lover, were also very fine. Marshall Heinbaugh, as Selim the Turk, was the only principal really beyond his element. It may have been the beard encircling his face, but every sound he made was so mufiled that the stage seemed three times further off than the one block it actually...
Boris Goldovsky has taken an old and practically forgotten chestnut, dusted it off, and come up with a modernized, glossified, and immensely entertaining version of Rossini's "The Turk in Italy...
...main fault with the "Turk" was not in the performance or the opera itself. It is hardly more than a chamber opera, and in the cavernous wastelands of the Boston Opera House, the small mass of sound produced was pretty well lost. It was hard enough for most of the paying customers to hear the artists, let alone detect any difference subtler than that between a pianissimo and a fortissimo...
...against the efforts of Moscow's Patriarch Alexei to bring all the Eastern churches "home." to Russia. The Turkish government (unofficially Moslem) unofficially indicated that it would be "very, very satisfied" by Athenagoras' election. The only opposition came from those who opposed the election of a non-Turk or who resented the obvious political interest of the Turkish government and the Western nations...
This winter's program will offer him a chance to expand even further: later offerings will be Rossini's "A Turk in Italy"--never done here before--and "Carmen," which Goldovsky considers a great opera in spite of the depredations of Rita Hayworth and every other woman who ever held a rose in her teeth...