Word: ballo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Backstage, 29-year-old Yugoslav Soprano Daniza Ilitsch, late of a Nazi concentration camp, nervously awaited the call for her first Met performance as Amelia in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera. In the pit, a new Italian conductor, Giuseppe Antonicelli, was making his Met debut...
...opera which Manager Edward Johnson chose for the opener was a new show, and as queer as they come. Un Ballo in Maschera (Masked Ball) was written by Giuseppe Verdi in the 1850s to a play by Scribe which dealt with the assassination of Sweden's King Gustavus III. Because of trouble nearly a century ago with Italian censors, the libretto of Masked Ball was given a U. S. background. Its hero was "Riccardo, Count of Warwick, Governor of Boston" in the 17th Century. He tenoriously fell in love with the soprano wife of his "Creole" secretary. After everyone...
...scenery is hideous, most of its stagecraft pompous, hidebound, stodgy. In Europe, opera is everywhere sung in the language of the land, whereas the Met's official tongue is Anything-but-English. Next week the Metropolitan will open its season with some hurdy-Verdi in Italian (Un Ballo in Maschera), a new sponsor for its Saturday broadcasts (Texas Co.), its annual promise of more oomph. Meanwhile last week some other U. S. operas delivered the oomph...
Boccherini-Francaix: Scuola di Ballo (London Philharmonic, Antal Dorati conducting; Columbia: four sides). A sheaf of charming 18th-Century salon pieces collected and orchestrated as a ballet by tricky, French, 27-year-old Modernist Frangaix...