Will Wasp e
I am sad, though not necessarily surprised, to learn that Franco Zeffirelli will not now be producing Carmen for the Royal Opera this summer. What with his film work and his other London commitment to direct de Filippo's Saturday, Sunday, Monday, for the National Theatre, he just couldn't find the time. There was also the fact that, having lately read the libretto for the first Om( , Franco regarded it as unstageable unless he could re-write the whole thing. '
How long 1 wonder, before the Garden announces that Michael Geliot will be producing Carmen instead, and reveals whether Shirley Verrett will still be singing the title role and Georg Solti will still be conducting, this distinguished pair having been part of the original Zeffirelli deal?
Yes, Yes, Nanette
I could not blame you if you regarded the showbiz news columns with a certain scepticism. On February 6, Drury Lane Theatre and impresarioHarold Fielding issued a joint statement: 'There is no truth in the published statement that No, No, Nanette is ,scheduled to open there on May 16. Tickets for Gone With the Wind are currently on sale at Drury Lane box office up to September 1." Well, • they might have been on sale, but they certainly won't be used, since Gone With the Wind will close at DruiLane on April 7 and go off on an American tour. Meanwhile, plans and castini for No, No, Nanette happily procaTo and no one would actually he bowlec over if it were to open at Drury Lan, on May 16.
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