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Letter from Amsterdam
Warnke, Frank J. | August 3, 1957 issue

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At the Metropolitan Theater's last performance of the opera "The Rake's Progress in 1954," a young man turned to his young lady with the laughing observation that he hadn't heard any tunes. It would be easy to dismiss the young man as tone deaf, since the score of the opera is a blaze of melody from beginning to end. But some of the hostile criticism of the opera can be explained by the fact that it !has seldom received a production which does full credit to the beauty of its music, the brilliance of its libretto and the complexity of its total impact. The Metropolitan production of 1952-54 was hampered by stiff action, diffuse direction and a conventional prettiness of staging.

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OPERA; RAKE'S Progress, The (Theatrical production); DRAMATIC music; CHILDREN'S plays; MELODY; SOUND recordings
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