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  • Charles Burney and The Cunn...
    LE GUIN, ELISABETH

    Eighteenth - Century Studies, 10/2010, Letnik: 44, Številka: 1
    Book Review, Journal Article

    ... it is one of the roaring successes of the entire history of opera. On the three consecutive nights of the conference, a new production of The Cunning-Man was performed.\n (I later learned that of the three he is the only one without formal vocal training, which raises some interesting questions about the effect of such training on singerly diction.) The sorcery scene in act I, in which the Cunning-Man works a "spell" on Colin, involved a bubble blower, a rubber chicken, bug-eyed mugging, and various other silliness that elicited laughter to a nicely calibrated degree.