Word: adler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sentiment & Flair. Much of the credit for San Francisco's success goes to Vienna-born General Director Kurt Herbert Adler, 52, who took over the company three years ago, after the death of Impresario Gaetano Merola. A sentimental Neapolitan, Merola had built up the company and fenced it in with a traditional repertory. But Adler inherited not only a flourishing company but a sophisticated audience ready for new and different opera...
...productions of Cherubini's short The Portuguese Inn, and Honegger's Joan of Arc at the Stake, both performed for the first time on a U.S. opera stage. The next year he followed up with the U.S. premiere of Sir William Walton's Troilus and Cressida. Adler also revived such difficult classics as Verdi's Macbeth and Wagner's Flying Dutchman, gradually building up his own high-caliber stable of singers, including Germany's Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Vienna's Leonie Rysanek, British Tenor Richard Lewis, and a strong group of young American discoveries. This...
Misfires & Shrugs. One reason for such achievements: Adler knows music as few opera managers do: he used to be a conductor. A man of charm and inexhaustible energy, Adler spends weeks each winter combing Europe for talent, works 18 hours a day during the season. The logistics for his short season are tricky, with 31 productions of twelve operas scheduled in the San Francisco area in 38 days, and 16 performances of 13 operas set for 17 days in Southern California...
...greatest defectors, Alfred Adler and Carl Gustav Jung, had left him long before, along with Wilhelm Stekel. In the 19203 they were followed by Otto Rank (who proved to be suffering from manic-depressive psychosis that had gone unsuspected in the inner circle of analysts), by Wilhelm Reich, and finally by the fawning Ferenczi, whose lifelong emotional troubles were compounded at the end by pernicious anemia and organic brain damage. Through it all, Freud held firmly to the line he had laid down: "We have only one aim and one loyalty-to psychoanalysis." When Stekel big-heartedly attempted a late...
...around his neck and a TV camera was wheeled into place, "this is the first time anyone ever had me on a leash." Then, his white head wreathed in tobacco smoke, the famed analyst leaned back to answer questions and explain the theories that placed him with Freud and Adler in the big three of modern psychology. It was his first experience with TV, and it was for an audience that must have seemed remote indeed. The audience to be convened this fall: citizens of Houston, Texas, who will get the benefit of four filmed Jung lectures over KUHT...