II Tabarro
| THOUGHT the broadcast version of Puccini’s 11 Tabarro in all respects most creditable and enjoyable. In a preliminary passage, with orchestral background, William Austin sketched the plot, then the work ran its course, The opening was beautifully played, and ‘sustained most sensitively the mood of dark, lulling water, from which menacing events would presently spring. I was interested to observe as the opera proceeded on its high, melodramatic road, how much Gian-Carlo Menotti draws from Puccini, not merely the lush purplish passages, easily identified, but quirks of orchestration like the barrel organ noises early in I] Tabarro which one hears again and again in Menotti. The singers seemed in no way hampered by the strange, operatic English they were. often forced to cope with, and worked together to produce a fine intensity, which enables one to create, and even
experience, ‘this minor masterpiece of modern opera. It was an interesting experiment by Mr. Robertson and, I thought, wholly successful. May we hope now for a similarly distinguished Gianni Schichi?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 902, 16 November 1956, Page 18
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171II Tabarro New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 902, 16 November 1956, Page 18
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