Word: zeffirelli
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Karajan's long-awaited Siegfried, Orfeo ed Euridice, Weber's gloomily romantic Der Freischutz, and a Russian-language Boris Godunov. But the Met's first week will probably open with Aïda and Leontyne Price, and there are plans for brand-new productions by Franco Zeffirelli of Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, along with Renata Tebaldi's Tosca and a so-far-uncast La Traviata. Thereafter, apparently, except for Joan Sutherland and Marilyn Home in a new Norma, the 16 offerings will be familiar...
...naked body can bring a visceral vitality to the theater?as several American ballet companies have demonstrated. The bedroom scene in Franco Zeffirelli's film Romeo and Juliet took on a new dimension when the couple were portrayed in the nude. So might many other dramatic interludes...
...Integrity! Freedom!" trumpeted the resolution passed by the Italian Association of Cinema Authors. "Any pornography or morbidity is preferable to repression." Strong words, and stronger still was the action taken by the association in angrily expelling famed Director Franco Zeffirelli (Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew). His colleagues were enraged because Zeffirelli had been campaigning against the current flood of sex films in the Italian cinema, saying that they show sex as vulgar and ugly and suggesting that some moviemakers on the edge of bankruptcy had been saved by pornography. Countered Zeffirelli: "I committed no antidemocratic...
...Bernstein, he flies off this week to conduct Beethoven's Missa Solemnis for the 100th anniversary of the Vienna State Opera, "and that will be the end of my conducting until 1970." The new time found will be for composing. He will confer with Italian Director Franco Zeffirelli about a joint project - "almost a sort of filmed opera" - and he has a commission to do a musical theater work for the opening of Washington's Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in the fall...
...Merrill, the resident stage director of the Metropolitan Opera, whose eleven productions are among the best that the company has ever mounted. The youngest (40) and first American-born director ever to hold that post, Merrill is almost devoid of flamboyance or gimmickry. Unlike such glamorous directors as Franco Zeffirelli and Luchino Visconti, whose personal styles sometimes interfere with musical values, Merrill subordinates himself to the score. Like a musical detective, he searches it and the libretto for clues that will evoke a fresh visualization onstage...