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OPERA: 'AN ACTOR'S REVENGE,' BY MIKI
1981
Overview
The attempt to blend Western musical traditions with those of the Orient has a rich history. Such composers as Debussy, Puccini, Holst, Britten, Mahler and Webern have expropriated Eastern musical ideas while still holding to an unmistakably Western viewpoint. A few Oriental composers, such as Toru Takemitsu, have approached from the other direction, in hopes of retaining the integrity of their own heritage while making its essence accessible to Western audiences. That is what the contemporary Japanese composer Minoru Miki has tried to do in ''An Actor's Revenge,'' his ''Kabuki opera,'' which was given its American premiere last night by the Opera Theater of St. Louis. All this may sound confusing, and it does take getting used to. However, ''An Actor's Revenge'' adds up to an absorbing evening of music drama, spiced with wonderfully convoluted intrigues and lots of the noisy, convulsive violence that is a staple of popular drama, East or West. A production as risky and as exotic as ''An Actor's Revenge'' is an ambitious project for an opera company now only in its sixth season, but the troupe that Richard Gaddes has put together in this city plainly has reached the point where few operatic enterprises would be beyond its grasp.
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