Word: yvetot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...never been an opera quite like this. A sort of jaunty and funny morality play about a housewife obsessed with the glories of her floor waxer, it combines the unwieldy stylizations of grand opera with the genteel hysterics of tele vision commercials. The last story, The King of Yvetot, about a man of advancing years who is cuckolded by his young wife, has the level worldliness and sensuality of a late Renoir film like Picnic on the Grass...
...French as frogs' legs, the beret-bearing, 60-year-old composer arrived at Tanglewood, in Massachusetts' Berkshires, to be guest instructor in composition. Before he left Paris, he had received a cable from Tanglewood's Serge Koussevitzky: "We will perform your [opera] Le Roi d'Yvetot. Are you happy...
...people of medieval Yvetot dethrone their king. Then the women find that their menfolk are too busy running the state to work their land or flatter their wives. So they rebel and restore the king. Meantime, the king does his bit by making love to a serving girl, who eventually becomes queen of Yvetot. That leaves the women in charge of things, as usual, and everybody takes it happily from there...
Among the other features of the performance will be a number of songs, the singers of which have been coached by Dr. A. T. Davison '06, Director of the University Glee Club. These songs will include "The King of Yvetot", Beranger's best-known composition...
Anglo-American Hospital at Yvetot...
| 1 |