Friday, December 6, 1974
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‘Soapsuds'enliven opera workshop's 'Xerxes'
Xerex is in love with Romila, and so is
Heresy, Arsenames, whose love is returned
Romilda's sister, Atlanta, loves Arsamenes. Xerxes is adored by his betrothed, Anastris, who serves him as a soldier in disguise.
What might sound like an afternoon soap opera play is actually from the libretto of George F. Handel's "Xerxes," which begins with 8 p.m. tonight in the University Theatre.
The complicated plot is characteristic of the Baroque period, Paulmeller said.
The opera workshop production, which is about the romantic adventures of Xerxes, the Fifth Century B.C. Persian king, is visited by Alexander Paulmueller, visiting director
Handel, widely recognized as one of the greatest composers of the late Baroque era, is noted particularly for his Italian operas, English oratorios and instrumental compositions. The most famous of his oratories is the "Messiah," written in 1741.
"What we have is an opera that was written about ancient Persia during the Baroque period, so that you have Persians to hear," Ann Schoruck, the conductor, said.
The Baroque operas were written for high society and ran for four or five hours, Schornerick said. The people would come and play in the theater, in the opera theater boxes, she said.
"Now our opera is only two hours and 15 minutes," Paulmueller said. "Yes, that's what happened."
Except for the famous "Largo" at the beginning of the opera, "Xerxes" was forgotten for 200 years until Oscar Hagen in 1924 for the Handel festival in Goettingen.
Hagen translated the Italian opera into German.
Paulmuthler, Schornick and George Lawner, professor of orchestra, have revised the opera and translated it into English.
"We have translated from the German, which means we then had to go back and refer to the Italian to check out any ambiguities and to see how the words fitted into the music." Shornick said. "It's really been a tremendous labor."
Paulmuller, an Austrian musician, has never directed an opera in English before. He said he had directed English operas translated into German.
Paulmurier has conducted Handel's "Rodelinda" and "Gliu Ciesare" in Europe. He has been a director at the opera houses of Regensburg and Linz, a conductor with the Frankfurt Philharmonic orchestra and a guest conductor at the Vienna Volkosper.
He said working with European students was the same as working with Americans. The only difference he said, is in being at a university as opposed to a conservatory.
Paulmuller presently is the director of opera at the Mozartium in Salzburg.
The opera is an experiment, he said, and
Neighborhoods near garage site to seek legal advice, referendum
The residents voted to direct a steering committee from the Pinckney and Old West Lawrence Neighborhood Associations to establish a law of a lawsuit with legal counsel.
Pinckney and Old West Lawrence residents agreed last night to seek the legal remedy for what they termed a poor decision by the city commission.
By JILL DOLES City Reporter
The 2nd and Indiana site was the second choice of Olbinger-Smith, planning consultants, and the first choice of a study done last April by city staff.
About 65 residents of the two neighborhoods voted to seek an attorney's advice about the legal recourages for reversing the policy. An insurance garage at 2nd and Indiana streets.
The group maintains that such a study hasn't been done and won't be done unless for research.
The city commission voted 4p1 on Nov. 13 to place a new maintenance garage at 2nd and Indiana streets despite protests from the邻居hoods.
The groups are looking toward the possibility of bringing an environmental lawsuit against the city. Because the city plans to spend federal revenue sharing for the garage, the group thinks an environmental impact statement should be required.
"If that were done in this case, I feel fairly confident that it (the garage) wouldn't be located at 2nd and Indiana." George C. Georges, professor of law, saito go ahead without the impact statement. In case I must pass one similar case pending in the court,
Coggins said he thought it would be illegal
After the overture, in the style of Baroque opera, Paulmueleller said, Handel has written in a gigue or dance so the cast can pay respects to the audience. Servants lead the principal characters onstage, each character takes a bow and the opera begins.
Elviro, played by Carol Packard, is a character in *The Twilight Saga* and Elviro was the first comic character Handel used. Paulmuel Miller said, because of the comedy, he also juggled Opera*, which satirized serious opera.
an opportunity for students to experience a Baroque opera.
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"The chances are no better than even that the thing would ultimately succeed," he said.
The commission's decision may be reversed at any time by the commission itself. Three commissioners will be up for re-election in Anil.
"Any retention of the status quo is going to you over the hurdle—that being election time."
"These things do happen every once in awhile," he said, "but I don't think it's an intentional thing on the part of the manufacturer. When it does occur, I think it's more often a case of someone shoplifting part of the product."
He said the suit might function as a stalling action.
Rusty Springer, owner of Rusty's supermarkets, which operates three local stores, said very few complains on short-counting had been received.
Although short-counting doesn't appear to be a serious problem in Lawrence, Carol Boone, director of the Consumer Protection Association (CPA), said yesterday consumers should be aware of the actual content of the items they buy.
The CPA hasn't received any formal complaints about short-counting, but the agency has received several inquiries and complaints regarding pricing of merchandise, Boone said.
Commissioners Nancy Hambleton and John Emick have already announced that they won't run. Mayor Jack Rose hasn't made a commitment.
She said that some products contained less than the amounts advertised and that these discrepancies could represent important losses to the consumer.
Coggins said timing was the problem. He said the most important dates were the first of the three births.
He said the further along the city got with the project, the worse chances were for top-level investors.
Then Xerkes, played by Patrick Neve,
reveals his love for Romilda, played by
Frances Ginsberg. Xerkes brother, AR-
theo, plays Dean Russell, also is in
with Rupelle.
George Allen, president of the Pinckney
Neighborhood Association, said, "Every evidence points to the fact that the city is
The residents also voted to work with the newly formed Association of Lawrence Neighborhoods to circulate petitions favoring a referendum.
The group would need petitions with the vote in the last election of the people voted in the last election of the people named to propose a city ordinance that prohibits the location of a city garage or in a public parking lot.
Architects have been hired to design and engineer the garage, and the process of
Philip A. Godwin, 603 Ohio, said the referendum would be "just the thing to weaken" him.
Goldwin also suggested possible legal action against the park department because the Fredrick Inward house at 615 N. 3rd was on the National Record of Historic Sites
He said the impact of anything against the value of a historic site might be grounds for settlement.
Paulmueltle said the characters acted like normal people and spoke to each other as normal people did, not in the traditional operatic style.
The characters, he said, are "a little more pathetic, yet, but absolutely clear to a man
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The styles of the costumes have been borrowed from the Egyptians, Babylonians and Persians. Paulmeller said, and the setting is abstract.
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The Baroque operas were opulent, but the University production will be simple.
"We're thrifty, Schornick said. "We have no intention of imitating the Persian style." It is.
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"Opera isn't an elitist art," she said.
"Opera is the best of music and the best of theatres."
Beethoven said music was more than all of philosophy and religion, Schornick said.
The human voice is the best instrument for the music of opera. Paulmuriel said.
Paulmeller, who speaks energetically and with a heavy German accent, said, "Obera is composed for to give occasion for the voice to give out all feeling."
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Schornick and Paulmuel agree with Verdi's idea that no matter what any living artist composed, it would never up to what he heard in his head.
Paulmueller is attending KU this semester on the Rose Morgan Professor's
Paulmueller will leave Sunday for Salzburg and will begin rehearsal next week on a Johann Strauss concert, which will be presented in late December.
In January he will direct a Carl Orff work.
and the 80-year-old Orff is scheduled to attend the performance.
"He is, in effect, managing things in Salzburg while he'le in Kansas," Sorenkirk said.
There will be only one performance of the opera, Presten Sisk, box office manager of the University Theatre, said this was the first an opera workshop would be fully staged.
KU registration certificates not be used to admit students as for other productions. There is a $1.50 admission charge for everyone.
Ken Smith, chairman of the voice department, said the chairman only wished to produce
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