Ned Rorem in New York City - 14 April, 1958
from The New York Diary: New York Spring-Summer, 1958, page 320:
How could I not be discouraged about librettos, at least for a while, after last month's ignominious failure of The Robbers? The production was an outrage, with the three actors looking less Chaucerian than like Jesse James, Leslie Howard and Harpo Marx. To add insult to injury, it was co-billed with Rieti's The Pet Shop (renamed "Amelia Goes to the Dogs" by Elliott Stein) which received all the praise from les petits amis. The damage of "charm" again, but for once I am not the sinner.
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Ned Rorem, The New York Diary: New York Spring-Summer, 1958. In The Paris Diary and The New York Diary 1951-1961 (New York, 1998), p. 320. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1398194418741 accessed: 13 October, 2024
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'The Pet Shop'
written by Vittorio Rieti |
performed by Carl Bamberger, Mannes College Opera Workshop |
'The Robbers'
written by Ned Rorem |
performed by Carl Bamberger, Mannes College Opera Workshop |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 14 April, 1958 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Notes
Performance took place in Kaufman Auditorium, 92nd Street YMHA, New York, by the Mannes College Opera Workshop, according to (http://www.boosey.com/pages/opera/moreDetails.asp?musicID=5243) accessed 22 April 2014
Originally submitted by iepearson on Tue, 22 Apr 2014 20:20:18 +0100