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Flushed with success, Hamburg State Opera Director Rolf Liebermann described The Visitation as "the best opera since Wozzeck." U.S. audiences may have a chance to see and hear for themselves next summer, when Liebermann expects to bring The Visitation to Manhattan as part of the Hamburg Opera's first American visit...
...with who says) was lured back on several occasions to direct the French National Orchestra, and was even offered the important post of director of the Paris Conservatory Orchestra. (He turned it down.) In 1963, the Paris Opera gave him a free hand in producing Alban Berg's Wozzeck: he demanded and got an unprecedented 30 rehearsals, and the opera scored a major triumph. In a six-week tour de force in Paris earlier this year, Boulez again conducted Wozzeck, helped to produce three Stravinsky ballets, gave eight concerts, performed on TV, and recorded an opera and two orchestral...
George Buechner's Wozzeck, directed by John A. Lithgow '67, is the expressionistic treatment of the private life of a soldier. The 19th-century work will be produced in early November...
Complex Tapestry. Yet as opera, Don Rodrigo was something less than a torrid success. Ginastera's score, based on a twelve-tone scale and structured after the manner of Alban Berg's groundbreaking 1921 masterwork, Wozzeck, struck the ear but not the heart. It was a complex musical tapestry, flecked with startled tones of brass and wood wind and splotched with splashes of percussion. In total, the score failed to achieve the delineation of character and dramatic thrust that distinguish great opera from good. Don Rodrigo was nonetheless an adventure worthy of the underwriting (by Mrs. John...
...Wozzeck was a smash. "How long," mused L'Express, "has it been since L'Opéra de Paris has offered its public a work of such strength, executed with such care, love and precision down to the slightest detail? Not since the war certainly." Hiking the cost of tickets up to a high of $16 for Norma and brazenly importing big-name, high-priced foreign artists in excess of the legal quota (by government decree not more than 10% of the singers can be foreign), Auric mounted new productions of Tannhäuser, Don Carlos...