On Saturday Night Moirashearer Returned To Covent Garden...
absence of some eighteen months. She made her reappearance in Symphonic Variations, and stood out from the indifferent performance of her companions by reason of her extra......
Contemporary Arts
OPERA AND BALLET Orpheus. (Royal Opera House.) Tins is the last of the revivals of the 1952-3 season at Covent Garden, and the opera company now goes on tour. Gluck's Orpheus is......
Theatre
Oedipus. By Sophocles. (King's Theatre, Hammersmith.) MR. DONALD Wourr has, prefaced his Shakespearean season at Hammersmith with King Oedipus and Oedipus at Colonus, in the new......
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The Ballet In " Orpheus " : Two Views Is
Orpheus an opera or a ballet ? What did it look like in Vienna in 1762 or in Paris twelve years later ? Does the fact that we don't really know what it looked like matter one......
Unlike Some Operas, In Which It Acts Simply As A
form of divertisse- ment, the ballet in Orpheus plays an integral part of the whole. The Furies and the Blessed Spirits set the key for the Underworld - and the Elysian scenes......
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