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Pierre Emmanuel--the French poet who failed to get a visa to America from U.S. officials in Paris last summer--is expected to participate in a three-day Summer School conference on "The Defense of Poetry" this August...
William Y. Elliott, director of the Summer School, said last night Emmanuel expects to have no difficulty in getting into the U.S., although the poet has not yet applied for a visa...
Menotti, a lean, dark-eyed, hungry-looking man of 38, got the idea for his new opera from reading about a refugee who committed suicide when she was turned down for a visa. Says Menotti: "I know we must have some bureaucracy . . . but I cannot abide little people who, given a little power, wield it inflexibly and cruelly...
Menotti stretched his libretto and music around a situation of almost completely unrelieved pathos and tragedy. His heroine, Magda Sorel (Soprano Patricia Neway), applies for a visa to join her resistance-leader husband, who has been hounded out of his unnamed country by the secret police. "The Consul" himself never appears; his secretary chants a bored refrain to all comers...
...Puccini-like melodrama and composing melody with Puccini-like appeal. His hair-raising stage directions-touches such as the smashing of a window-pane-startled listeners more than once. And he had not lost any of his flair for the macabre: in one scene, a magician hypnotizes his fellow visa-seekers, commands them into an eerie waltz in the consulate office. In Magda's dying dream, the same characters dance again in coffin clothes...