Word: abravanel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record was not improved by a performance of Delibes' Lakmé. New Conductor Maurice de Abravanel tortured this suave, tuneful music into Wagnerian thunder. Vina Bovy, cast as the Hindoo maid, remained Vina Bovy and gave little support to Basso Leon Rothier who made Nilakantha piteous with his fits of love and fury. Not till the middle of the week brought a competent Aïda and a warm, vivid Faust in French did critics feel confidence in Director Johnson's French & Italian wings...
...manager, Edward Johnson chose Die Walküre to open his season next week, the first time in 35 years a Wagnerian opera has been first-nighted at the Metropolitan. Artur Bodanzky will be the first-night conductor, but a new conductor has been engaged, Portuguese-born Maurice de Abravanel, and an old one re-engaged, Richard Hageman, who will be on hand to direct the U. S. premiere of his Capon-sacchi. Another U. S. premiere was to be Cimarosa's more-than-a-century-old Secret Marriage. Both operas are to be sung in English. Manager Johnson...