Sunday,, January 14, 1973 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Sunday, January 14, 1973 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Most of our patrons agree with 1214, s. university - Free Press critic Susan Stark who called HAROLD AND MAUDE I LIUL" "the most easy-to-take comedy of the year" and who picked it as Theatre Phone 66846416 one of the year's ,: . 10 best films. They met at the funeral of a perfect stranger. From then on, things got perfectly stranger and stranger. Paramount Pictures Presents HAROLD and MAUDE Color by Technicolor A Paramount Picture ]GPjZo EXTRA "THE DOVE" A satire on Ingm ar Bergm an films UMFS presents i::v.}John Hartford and Blake IN CONCERT JAN. 26 ... .. 8 P.M.-Power Center $3.50 reserved tickets available at Herb David's, 209 S. State. Subscribe to The Daily Phone 764-0558 Cosi Fan Tuute: a lackluster affair By TONY CECERE "Cosi Fan Tutte," comic opera in two acts with music by Wolf- gang Amadeus Mozart and libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte with English version by Ruth and Thomas Mar- tin. Production by the Canadian Opera Company with the Canadian Opera Orchestra, John Fenwick, Conductor. Directed by Herman Geiger-Torel with Sets by Georg Schogi. Costumes by Andrea Grain- ger. Friday Evening, January 12, 1973 at 8:00 p.m. Power Center for the Performing Arts, Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Cast: Fiordiligi, Helly Jedig; Dorabella, Nancy Greenwood; Despina, A n n Cooper; Ferrando, John Arab; Gul- ielmo, Donald Oddie; Don Alfonso, Jan Rubes; Servants: Phil Stark, Steven Thomas. When the Canadian Opera Com- pany decided to take "Cosi Fan Tutte" on tour they had to leave. something behind. This is under- standable for economic reasons: it would be foolhardy to take an extravaganza production on the road. However, when the some- thing left behind turns out to be large and salient chunks of the score as well as two trumpets and the tympani part, the re- sults can be nothing but dis- appointing. Admittedly, s o m e cuts were necessary - you can- not do one of the later scenes in act one without a chorus and a chorus is very expensive. This does not excuse the omission of many beautiful and important sections of the second act, how- ever. Nor does it excuse the om- ission of the very important tym- pani part and the sorrowful transcribing of the trumpet parts to the Horns. I have nothing against Horns mind you - I play Horn myself. Trumpet parts were, after all, written for trum- pets. You cannot play a Chopin etude with just the right hand, and you cannot have an orches- tra without proper instrumenta- tion. This was a company that acted well, much in the style of the New York City Center 0 p e r a Company. There were moments when this forte was a bit over- done, as in the case of Act One when Dorabella and Fiordiligi perched on a seesaw. Somehow the seesaw did not quite fit the scene. The costumes of the "Al- banians" (Ferrando and Gugliel- mo in disguise) were rather hum- orous even though they were not at all Albanian. _The set design was also rather humorous in a mock-baroque fa- shion. But in spite of these non- sequitirs the humor was delight- ful. This was a somewhat slap- stick interpretation of the da- Ponte roles, very close in spirit to the original production and its aims. Perhaps the acoustics in Pow- er Center were to blame for the dampened and somewhat t h i n sound of the singers. Their dic- tion was impeccable but their voices did not reach the back of the auditorium. The one unpleas- ant matter in this regard was the tendency for the duets and tutti numbers to float away from the rhythm in the orchestral a z- companiment, something that is clearly the fault of Maestro John Fenwick. Some of the more pleasant mo- ments in Friday night's produc- tion came from the pit. Appar- ently Maestro Fenwick's atten- tions were more concentrated on the orchestra, giving a fine lilt to the overture and some of the other lighter sections of the score. There were some obvious intona- tion problems in the pit, parti- cularily in the Horns and Clar- inets. Helly Jedig and Nancy Green- wood were both convincing in the roles of Dodabella and Fiordiligi, although Miss Jedig has a ten- dency to force in the upper re- gister. These tones occasionally buried the other voices, which was most unpleasant. Ann Coop- er sang Despina with appropriate sarcasm and virtually captured the audience with her charm. Her saucy mannerismsand excellent vocalising were the zenith of the production. John Arab and Donald Oddie also performed adequately as Ferrando and Gu- lielmo. Unfortunately, Jan Rubas was nothing spectacular as Don Alfonso. There were moments when, he operadragged,hespecially in the second act. This was partially due to the stage direction, which suffered from a lack of imagin-i- tion and conveyed a sense of routinization by the end of the opera. There were times when t h e singers would lose their sense of pacing: ariving at a spot on the stage, Ferrando would ab- ruptly break into song or at other times stand and do nothing. Aside from the missing music, my profound regret was that there was nothing extraordinary about the production. There were highlights to the show in the act- ing and the comedy, yet there was nothing at all superior about this show. Dr. Herman Geiger- Torel should be chastised for tak- ing such a lackluster affair on the road, not to mention t h e stage direction or the musical surgery performed on the Mo- zart masterpiece. After all, peo- ple go to the opera not for the ordinary - they go for the exra- ordinary. The Canadian O p e r a Company gave us very little of that. Cosi Fan Tutte The Golden Ring: Sfine and mellow' O'Neill and Mary Addiss. Barry is well known to Ann Arbor aud- iences and Mary should be. Her pure soprano was a pleasing addi- tion to the evening. With much casual humor, and the perfect taste in music charac- teristic of the Golden Ring, they rounded out the third set, closing with what they consider 1972's best folkstyle show, Bob Colt- man's "The Minstrel Show." The Golden Ring, like good wine, be- comes finer and mellower w i t Ih each passing year. I C.ULTURE CALIIAR FILM - Cinema Guild shows The Maltese Falcon in Arch. Aud. at 7 and 9:05. Cinema II screens Topper at 7 and 9 in Aud. A. ART - Today's your last chance to see drawings and photo- graphs of European architectural monuments by Albert Kahn at the UM Museum of Art. Also on display is an exhibition of "Post Conceptual Graphics by Robert Senn- hauser, visible in the exhibition hall of the College of Architecture and Design. WEEKEND BARS AND MUSIC - Bimbo's, Gaslighters (Fri., Sat., Sun.) cover; Del Rio, Armando's Jazz Group (Sun.) no cover; Rubaiyat, Iris Bell Adventure (Fri., Sat., Sun.) no cover; Pretzel Bell, RFD Boys (Fri., Sat.) cover; Blind Pig, Brooklyn Bluesbusters (Fri., Sat.) cover, string trio (Sun.) no cover; Golden Falcon, The Fifth Revelation (Fri., Sat.) cover; Mackinac Jack's, Lucille Spann and the Garfield Blues Band (Fri., Sat., Sun.) cover; Mr. Flood's Party, Diesel Smoke and Dangerous Curves (Fri., Sat.) cover; Odyssey, Stone Front (Fri., Sat.) cover; Bimbo's on the Hill, The Crickets (Fri., Sat.) cover; Ark. The Golden Ring (Fri., Sat.) admission. MUSIC - Karen Lundgren sings soprano in the SM Recital Hall at 4:30. Mardy Medders does the same at 8 in the SM Recital Hall. Also at 8, Bert Lord can be heard play- ing organ at Hill. By LORRE WEIDLICH The Golden Ring opened Fri- day night by parading onto the floor of the Ark to the sound of George Armstrong's piping. With George clad in a kilt, followed by the woman in long, colorful skirts, and Harry Tuft and Ed Trickett trailing up the rear, they made as strong a visual as a musical impact. Their first song was the one for which their loose association is named, "The Golden Ring," and, with guitars and a dulcimer, they performed several beauti- fully arranged traditional songs together before splitting up into smaller groups for the first two sets. The Armstrongs are perman- ent members of a group known for its constantly shifting mem- bership. Gerry -Armstrong is a beautiful woman with a youth- ful, gentle face and a voice that became increasingly more love- ly as she warmed up during the evening. Her rendition of "The Loving of the Game," with Ed Tricket's sensitive guitar pick- ing backing her up, showed off her pure, vibrant voice at its fin- est. George joined her on several songs with excellent results, but the peak of his performance was the series of pipe tunes with which he began the third set. He intertwined bits of Scottish his- tory with Scottish music ranging from battle songs to a dirge, all well played. Becky and Jenny Armstrong's voices lack the strength of their mother's voice, but they blended into a light, pleasant sound on their duets, the most notable oftwhichdwas "Queen Eleanor's Confession." Ed Trickett and Harry T u f t dominated the second set. Ed's fine guitar work, impeccable taste in songs, mellow, lyrical voice are well-known. His and Harry's a capella version of "The Greasley Bride," a werewolf song, held the audience spell- bound, and everybody sang along r to CEE SUNDAY: Cary Grant in nostalgically on Harry's sensi- tive treatment of his all time fa- vorite Dylan song, "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right." 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