Word: opera
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bernstein-Zefffirelli production of Verdi's Falstaff with Baritone Geraint Evans, Metropolitan Opera...
...Beverly Sills sings Handel's Julius Caesar at the New York City Opera...
Angry as all the mail is, it could be worse-and has been for the television networks, where issues more vital to viewers than politics are at stake. NBC, for example, has received 60,000 Agnew-inspired letters. It got far more when it canceled the space opera Star Trek at the end of last season...
...changed atmosphere will affect the arts as well, which may become ephemeral, instant, faddish and ultimately disposable. There will be a veritable explosion of mixed-media experiments-conceivably to greatest effect in opera. Nudity onstage and on the screen, perhaps even outright pornography, will be taken for granted; the new frontier of shock probably will be violence and cruelty...
Mozart: Idomeneo (Philips). Like most opera seria, this one depends on gods, a sea monster, women pretending to be men and an unusual ability on the part of the audience to take the whole thing seriously. But the music is Mozart at his best, requiring only a great conductor and a great cast to do it justice. It gets just that. Colin Davis fans the music to a fierce, steady glow. Highpoints: George Shirley's rocketlike traversal of Fuor del mar-a crippling catalogue of coloratura devices -and Elettra's two arias sung by Pauline Tinsley, a British...