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...Abduction from the Seragllo is probably the first of Mozart's operas that you're likely to love at first acquaintance. It has a rather joyfully ridiculous plot about a talking pasha and his harem and a ferocious servant and a comical Englishwoman and so on, and some remarkable music, and a number of Harvard people are singing in this production, besides. A new translation and full orchestra. Tonight, February 23, and Saturday, March 2, 8 p.m. at the Peabody School Auditorium on Linnean Street...
Elizabeth Taylor, looking unwieldy, appears here as a rich Englishwoman whose sleep is troubled by nightmares about her former husband. She is haunted by memories of his death in a car wreck, in the company of a young lady of dubious virtue. During one sleepless night, she looks out of her window at the spooky house across the yard and sees-or thinks she sees, or at least says she sees-a dead man sitting in an armchair with his throat cut. Later she sees light behind the house's rickety shutters and a woman's corpse...
...stands sternly, an energetic, graying Englishwoman in a tweed skirt and sensible shoes. "No, no, no! You must not say, 'Condor, come here,' in that weak voice. That's no good. Stand up and say, 'Condor, COME!' " As her voice booms across the lawn outside her Hertfordshire home, owners and their dogs tremble involuntarily. Barbara Woodhouse, at 62, has trained more than 14,000 dogs, from nervous purebreds to what she recalls as "the worst dogs in England...
...skill, stirs an obvious question: How many novels must be written about the same 15 or 20 characters, moving through the same set of events? "At most, one," is the generous guess. Indeed, a single incident is the work's focus: the gang rape of a young Englishwoman, Daphne Manners, who is attacked by Indians in the Bibighar Gardens in Mayapore in 1942. The wrong men are arrested, including Hari Kumar, Miss Manners' lover, a displaced and dispossessed youth whose brown face makes him invisible to English society, but whose English public school education and accent...
...Towers of Silence is reminiscent of the first novel, The Jewel in the Crown (1966), and of its successor, The Day of the Scorpion (1968). The rape is reinvestigated, and there is a restaging of a wedding already seen in the second novel. The bride, apparently a pukka Englishwoman, senses the unsolidity and perhaps the immorality of the English presence in India, and goes temporarily...