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Monday, April 24, 1978
University Daily Kansan
'Falstaff' not hurt by use of Italian
By REBECCA YERADI
Reviewer
The antics of the jovial Sir John Falstaff delighted a near capacity audience in the University Theatre Friday night at the opening performance of Verdi's "Falstaff."
r staffaft. Verdi's last and only comic opera, is about the efforts of Sir John Falstaff to seduce two women at the same time. Arrigo Bito adapted the libretto from Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and parts of "Henry IV."
The opera, an ambitious undertaking, was made more ambiguous by the decision to sing the opera in the original Italian. It was a musical treatise, a dramatic treatment, and professional in many aspects.
Antonio Perez, professor of voice, sang
the title role of Falstaff. The slightly dark quality of his baritone voice ideally suited the part of the bluo, boasting Falstaff. Through his acting abilities, audience members unamiliar with the Italian language can interpret the mood of the action on stage.
NOT SURPRISEIING, the best moments were those he shared with Keith Lynch, in
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the first part of the second act, and Fran Ginsberg, in the second scene of the second
Lynch, who sang the role of Ford, has a lyric baritone, which provided both
Two Student Senate committees made plans last night to test student opinions and voted to defer the budget requests of two unions.
By GENE LINN and SARAH TOEVS
Staff Writers
The Polling Subcommittee made plans to conduct two polls today through Wednesday. The Academic Affairs Committee decided to devise a questionnaire for students to use in evaluating teachers and to receive feedback on requests of two engineering students' clubs.
Late funding requests delayed; poll planned
The Academic Affairs Committee decided to defer a request of $1,312 from the University Association for the Advancement of Women Engineers and a Request of $405 from the Aeronautics and Astronautics until Senate budget hearings in the fall.
REPRESENTATIVES OF both groups said they did not make their requests during the regular Senate budget hearings that ended last week because they did not see the announcements for the hearings that appeared in the University Daily Kansan.
the groups" representatives said the Kansan was not distributed well at Learned Center.
Susan Regier, committee chairman, said that a number of committee members thought it would not be fair to the groups the committee funded during regular budget bearings to fund the two engineering groups now.
"When we funded the other clubs we knew we were working with a limited amount of money, and we were pressured to cut their requests," she said.
THE TWO ENGINEERING students' clubs would have been funded by what is left from the Senate's unallocated funds this year. Senator Garrison said Senate had given the committee to allocate
The committee also decided to try to write up a questionnaire during the summer that
contrast and balance to Perez's voice. Although Lynch had trouble projecting in the ensembles, his monologue on jealousy was beautifully sung.
"Quand'ero paggio," sung by Falstaff to Alice, was delightful. Perez added just enough snugger to the brief but sparking number to make it convincing.
FENTON AND NANNETTE, the young lovers, were nicely portrayed by Jeremy Cyrilson.
Ginsberg, with her strong soprano and easy stage presence, sang the role of Alice Ford with assurance. She seemed completely at ease singing in Italian.
TONIGHT: Karen Meyer, organist,
presents a STUDENT RECITAL at 8 in
Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall. The
SAO PUEBIA HOUR is at 8 in the Council
Room of the Union. WILLIAM HENNESKEY, curator of western art at Spencer
Treasures, art, speaks on "New York Art
Treasures" at 8 in the Spencer Museum
auditorium.
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TOMORROW: The WOMEN'S COALITION will meet at 11 a.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Union. An EMployee RECOGNIZE THE CEREMONY will begin in the Big Eight Room of the Union Hall WELFARE COLLOQUIUM will be at 2:30 p.m. in the Council Room of the Union. THE GRADUATE ASSEMBLY will meet at 3 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Union. the department of mathematics will have its meeting room in the Union's Kansas Room. SUA BACKGAMON will meet at 7 p.m. in Parlor A of the Union. THE SCIENCE FICTION CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in Parlor A of the Union. THE ECOLOGY CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in the International Room of the Union. TAU THE ECOLOGY Gymnasium's Dance Studio. Anyone interested in dance is invited. AN ANTHROPOLOGY SEMINAR will be at 7 p.m. in the Walnut Room of the Union. THETA TAU will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Union's Gymnasium's Dance Studio. Anyone interested in dance will have a reading at 8 p.m. in the Council Room of the Union. BARBARA CRAIG, professor of French and Italian, will speak on "The Mystere du siege d'Oreaux (C. 1467) and Joan of Are" at 8 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium. Joe Utterback, planner, will speak on "The Mystere du siege d'Oreaux in Swarthout Recital Hall." The CONCERT AND VARSITY BANDs will have a concert at 8 p.m. in the University Theatre in Murphy Hall.
Events
TODAY: STUDENT SENATE has an open house from 11:30 a.m. to 2:20 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union. AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT READING is at 4 p.m. in the Council Room of the Union. The author lectures on literature, includes Karl Rosen, associate professor of classics and linguistics, on "Latin Elements in the Place Names of Gers" at 4:30 p.m. in 401 Wescoe Hall; JIM MEDONALD, professor from Kansas State University speaks on "Atomic Collision Currents" with irripped Ions" at 4:30 p.m. in 136 Malott Hall.
Sarah Johansen, as Meg Page, and Kathryn Ganz, as Mistress Quickly, both mezzo-soprano roles, handled their parts in the difficult ensembles very well.
could be used by KU students next year to evaluate teachers.
According to Regier, the questionnaire now available is not widely used because it is weighted in favor of the few very popular teachers.
"To receive the highest rating the way the questionnaire is worded now, the teacher has to be one of the best teachers the student has ever had," she said.
Falstaff's followers, the bumblebird Bardolph and Pistol, were able sung and well acted by C. Matthew Forscher and Alfred Lacquer in the department of chemistry.
Regier said that teachers would be more likely to use the results of an unbiased questionnaire in evaluating applications for tenure and promotions.
IN ACTION in the Folling Subcommittee, it was announced that the Senate would be conducting a poll today through Wednesday for a new policy on seating and child care for students' children.
John Andrews as Dr. Caius, the role closest to that of a villain in the opera, did an appropriate amount of stalking about, and he sang his part convincingly.
"Falstaff" moves quickly and is stunned with complicate ensembles and sudden
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tempo changes. George Lawner expertly guided the orchestra through the difficult score, maintaining a pace that could have easily become hectic.
THE EXCELENT direction by Ruth Michaela was responsible for much of the success.
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The inability of the ensembles to project clearly over the orchestra and some discomfort with the Italian libretto were the problems apparent in the production.
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Party equipment stolen from fraternity Friday
Three beer keys and kg-tapping equipment worth $175 were stolen from the Tau Kappa Epilon fraternity, 1911 Stewart St., in two separate incidents during an All-Greek TGIF party Friday evening, according to the police.
Thomas O'Boyle, vice president of the Interfraternity Council, reported to the police that thieves in an orange Ford pickup store a keg from the parking lot of the fraternity house about 5-30 p.m. Friday.
O'Boyle said that two men and two women were mixing with the crowd a$^{a}$
the party for about 45 minutes before they backed up to the keg, put it in the bed of their pickup and drove away.
O'BROYLE SAID there were about 20 persons within 10 yards of the keg while it was being stolen.
Between 8 and 10 that same evening, O'Boyle reported, thieves in a large car siren car two legs and tapping the front wheels attached in front of the fraternity house.
"I guess we just had too much faith in human beings," O'Boyle said.
The police have no suspects in the thefts.
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