Word: unevennesses
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Despite its reputation as a stable for opera's cavalry, the Metropolitan Opera does, of course, produce works that are new or outside the standard repertory. The results are uneven. This season has already seen an unfortunate production of Benjamin Britten's Death in Venice, an attenuated musical rumination exquisitely ill-suited to a house of the Met's proportions. Last week the company used its resources to far better effect. It revived Czech Composer Leos Janáček's Jenufa, last heard at the Met 50 years ago in a production starring Maria Jeritza...
...worst thing that can be said about this production is that it is uneven, a fault again largely due to the book, but nevertheless one which the directors seem to have been unable to overcome. They are at their strongest in the satiric scenes--"Little Tin Box" is terrific burlesque and the high point of the evening--and the blocking is clever where it really counts, as in the opening number. But they disappoint whenever a little tenderness is called...
...world. Last week the reigning ballerina of Russia's Bolshoi Ballet headed a group of touring stars from the company in a week-long engagement at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Shrewdly, the management announced in advance that she would dance at every performance; otherwise, seeing this uneven cadre of Bolshoiviks -actually, they constitute less than one-third of the entire troupe-without her would be as interesting as watching the New York Jets without Joe Namath...
Lady Audley's Secret takes flight from the Victorian potboiler of the same name and soars into satiric absurdity, complete with off-key arias. Uneven but interesting. At the Wilbur...
Blazing Saddles, Mel Brooks's latest film comedy, is the feature at Harvard Sq. this week. There's no denying this movie has its hysterically funny moments, like when Alex Karras gets in a belligerent mood and punches a horse in the mouth, but the film is oftentimes uneven and bordering on tasteless...