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Divorced. Kurt Herbert Adler, 58, dynamic Vienna-born director of the first-rank San Francisco Opera; by Diantha Warfel Adler, 46; after 23 years of marriage, two children; on grounds of extreme cruelty; in Reno...
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...Adler spends nine months a year in San Francisco and devotes the winter months to scouting trips to New York and Europe. He often spends Christ mas Day in a hotel room talking to singers and agents; two years ago, he saw 42 operas in 25 cities in 44 days. Now 58, Vienna-born Adler traipsed across Europe until 1938, learning opera while lending his hand to such diversions as an Austrian production of Abie's Irish Rose. Then he came to the U.S. and, in 1942, signed on as San Francisco's chorus director. When Founder...
...datorium. Some vestiges of Merola's Neapolitan hand still persist in the company's top-heavy Italian repertoire. Last week, Adler opened the new season with a week of pure paesani, starting with Aïda - as the company has done so often that a local critic named the War Memorial Opera House the Aïdatorium. But the new season also includes Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites, Strauss's Capriccio, Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades - all operas the Met audience will...
...season's first week gave Adler more reason than ever to believe the testimonials to his genius that gleam down on him from the walls of his office. Price, Regina Resnik and Giorgio Tozzi gave him an excellent opening night and Sutherland's Sonnambula won love-letter reviews. There was a sparkling new production of The Barber of Seville, and a Mefistofele in which dancers and chorus kindled each other to spectacular performances on sets that sometimes looked like paintings by Tintoretto. San Francisco was seeing some of the best-produced opera the American season can expect...