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Claudio Monterverdi’s “Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda” Adolphus Busch Hall...
This weekend Harvard and the Juilliard School of Music collaborated on a Loeb production of two "experimental" works of musical theatre, one from the 1620's and one from the 1960's. The first of these, Claudio Monteverdi's II Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, is a kind of stage cantata. A narrator describes and comments on a fight between Tancredi and Clorinda, while they act out the battle, occasionally singing a phrase or two themselves. In this production, Robert Jones as the narrator, Alan Titus as Tancredi, and Evelyn Mandac as Clorinda all sang excellently, although some of Miss...
...visual effect of II Combattimento was less satisfactory. Director Ian Strasfogel made a noble effort to overcome the difficulties inherent in staging a pantomine which has to move as slowly as its verbal description; but the rather stylized battle he gave Titus and Miss Mandac was unimaginative and full of gaps in which nothing in particular happened. The abstract slides projected on a blackboard behind the performers added little or nothing, and the sunset that appeared behind Clorinda's dying speech was downright embarrassing...
...operas, Monteverdi's "II Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda" and Lueiano Berio's "Passaggio," open tonight at the Loeb Drama Center. The operas, in the American premier, are being produced through the cooperation of the Julliard School of Music, The Carpenter Center, and the Loeb...
...Visual Arts Center has completed a series of color slides to be projected onto the stage as part of the backdrop of "Il Combattimento...