ORFEO ED EURIDICE:Gluck
Original Air Date: 01/09/1971
Bonynge; Bumbry, Tucci, Peters
SID.19330533
Bumbry premiered this final Rolf Gerard designed production complete in Courreges boots. She is in luscious voice for this, but how Gluckian one finds it might leave some of the more scholarly oriented very disappointed. When Mackerras arrived for a revival with Marilyn Horne we were in a different, but not necessarily more successful one. For the record, Gerard was the designer for the Webster Don Carlo, the Alfred Lunt Cosi Fan Tutte, the Peter Brook Faust, the Tyrone Guthrie Carmen, and the Garson Kanin Fledermaus among 20 productions over a 20 year period (only 2 in the 2 house– Romeo and this Orfeo). These productions rank among the great successes of the Bing regime. This is the premiere cast in a Rolf Gerard production (so out of ideas), but Bumbry is in luscious voice, if not your standard issue Orfeo. Why oh why is her effort not in MOoD?
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