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...other U.S.-born choreographer is more widely-or ineptly -copied in Europe, where even bad Robbins is good box office. But Robbins' competition (most notably Maurice Béjart's company) will have a tough time copying, ineptly or otherwise, the ballet he produced at the Spoleto Festival last week. A plotless work designed to have, according to Robbins, "the total effect of reading the morning paper," Events adds new luster to the career of a man who, from Fancy Free to West Side Story, has developed into the freshest creator of U.S. ballet...
...last week, in self-deprecation, spoke the sexiest Salome since red-haired Ljuba Welitch. The occasion was a new production of the Strauss opera at Spoleto, Italy, the musical festival that draws some 120,-ooo tourists each summer. Singing the role of "that girl"-described in Oscar Wilde's play as having "veins filled with fire"-was a fine new Negro soprano: Virginia-born Margaret Tynes...
This genteel exercise in white slavery occurred in the home of Italian Ambassador to the U.N. Egidio Ortona at an auction to raise money for Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto. Sold off with Burton and several minor works by Chagall and Tiepolo were Composer Menotti himself (for $501. to Novelist Pati Hill) and Conductor Thom as Schippers, who brought a mere $325 from Jean Feldman, ex-wife of Agent Charles Feldman. Schippers later registered a complaint with Maxwell: "Traitor, $350 for only an actor!" This week the proud owners were scheduled to feed their...
Despite the claims of such chic newcomers as Spoleto, Europe's two most important music festivals remain Salzburg and Bayreuth. As they opened last week-Bayreuth with new productions of all four operas of Richard Wagner's Ring, and Salzburg with a new Festspielhaus reputed to be the world's most technically advanced theater-both festivals were musically still far ahead of most other summer fare, but seemed disappointing compared to the success of past seasons...
...Spoleto (June 8-July 10). Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival of Two Worlds rounds into its third year with its finances noticeably sagging but its programing as lively as ever. The opener is a new production of La Boheme, directed by Menotti and conducted by Thomas Schippers. Also on the program: three works by the newly formed Spoleto ballet company, Cherubini's rarely heard Missa Solemnis...