Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM? Max Reinhardt's enchanting interplay of ballet, Mendelssohn and Shakespeare. In German...
...production of Shakespeare's comedy is a beneficiary of much Mendelssohn music and more Reinhardt. Some croaked: "You couldn't see the Shakespeare for the scenery and the ballet." Yet most people left the house filled with a sense of all imaginable marvels. The evening is like nothing in our current theatre. It borrows from the dance, the scene designer, the musician, the actor, the blabbering low comic and the story teller. With rare, almost incredible, genius of synthesis these elements are blended in delicate pageantry. Herr Reinhardt bewitches the emotions with every charm that can be worked...
...died. Schipa, as Alfred, loved loudly and blindly while Richard Bonelli, benign as the father, rubbed his hands and looked on at the mischief of his own making. The 3,500 in the Auditorium took delight in Muzio's costumes, in the elaborate sets, in the new ballet with incidental dances by Vechslav Swoboda, in boxholder's emeralds, gowns. The ten million got little of the glamour, missed little of the fine, florid singing of the principals expertly transmitted...
...Claudia Muzio). New singers are Eleanor Elderkin, Olga Kargau, Leone Kruse, Lucille Meusel, Delia Samoiloff, sopranos; Elinor Mario, contralto; John Sample, tenor; Eugenic Sandrini, Heinrich Schlusnus, Robert Ringling (son of the late circus proprietor Charles Ringling), baritones; Chase Baromeo, bass. Maria Yurieva and Vechslav Swoboda will head the new ballet. Giorgio Polacco is again musical director, Roberto Moranzoni, Henry G. Weber and Polacco the conductors, Herbert Johnson manager. Good news to President Samuel Insull and to the 2,400 citizens who guarantee $550,000 a year was the announcement that the largest subscription sale in the Company's history...
This program will open with Berlioz' "Overture to 'Benvenuto Cellini'", and will continue with Brahms' "Symphony No. 3" and Debussy's "'Iberia': 'Images' for Orchestra No. 2", concluding with Stravinsky's "Orchestral Suite from the Ballet, 'Petrouchka...