Word: troy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...text of Les Troyens was drawn from Virgil's Aeneid by Berlioz himself. It is an Iliadic arch that spans the siege of Troy, the death of the Trojan women and Aeneas' departure to establish Rome. Indisputably the most epic of all grand operas, it has not yet achieved the popularity of Boris Godunov or Otello, but it is on its way. Britain's Covent Garden has successfully done it twice. The earlier English production, in 1957, was the first full staging in a single evening that even approximated the composer's original intentions. (Berlioz broke...
...have, it seems, brought fresh frustrations to Angry Young Man Tom Hoyden, 33. While Wife Jane Fonda, 35, emcees the singing, speeches and slides of a touring troupe campaigning against U.S. aid to South Viet Nam, Husband Tom does his own tour of duty taking care of their son, Troy, three months. When the group arrived at Wellesley College for a show, Tom and Troy established themselves behind the front lines: in a church basement. Surprised by a photographer as the family was leaving the campus, Hayden exploded, "You want trouble?" He momentarily raised above his head a threatening object...
...militant champion of such liberal causes as Indian rights and Women's Lib, and her husband since January, Tom Hayden, 33, one of the Chicago Seven and most recently a witness for the defense in the Pentagon papers trial: their first child, a son; in Los Angeles. Name: Troy O'Donavan Garity...
...bulk of the play is a retelling of the Oresteia legend, and it makes for some restive or torpid listening depending on the playgoer's mood. The basic story line is intact. With his fleet becalmed on the way to Troy, Agamemnon (W.B. Brydon) sacrifices his daughter Iphigenia to win the gods' favor. His embittered wife Clytemnestra takes a lover, Aegisthus, who murders Agamemnon upon his return from the war. The dead king's son, Orestes, goaded to revenge by his sister Electra, proceeds to murder his mother and Aegisthus. Rabe has drastically minimized Electra...
Howls of pain and madness echo through these pages: Heracles tearing at the poisoned shirt on his back as a dead monster's venom scalds his veins; Ajax on the plains of Troy-big, dumb Ajax, crazed by the goddess Athene-slashing bulls' throats and breaking the backs of sheep dogs under the delusion that he is slaying his enemies...