1. He and his beautiful partner sallied through an abbreviated tavern scene from the ballet and its pas de deux with uneven technique and grand style. 2. Konstantin Pluzhnikov mugs a nasty Mephistopheles in a tavern scene, which lends the opera the sort of demonic scherzo Prokofiev could turn to ironic perfection. 3. Still, it represents a better attempt to create receding pictorial space than the tavern scenes. 4. The tavern scenes brim with vigor. 5. Next, the tavern scenes are a defined type of room scene. 6. One could write an extended and no doubt largely accurate description of Elizabethan day-to-day realities simply on the basis of the tavern scenes. |