Word: barone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most ambitions production, the Adams House Musical Society has polished up a Strauss score, imported two opera stars, and planted the name "Gypsy Baron" on everything from napkins to Adams House. It has also produced a charming light opera...
William Wheeling's adaptation of the old Germanic "Gypsy baron" folk tale, is masterful; he works some good dialogue into the search-for-the-pot-of-gold story, and his lyrics, especially for "A Flyer into Pigs," and "Peace-Loving Man," are unusually clever. Unhappily some of the dialogue is not properly stressed because the actors merely exchange lines without moving where better stage direction would provide some movement on strong speeches. Wheeling also uses some of his lyrics for exposition when they would be better as dialogue...
Part of the talent behind the Adams House Musical Society's production of Johann Strauss' "Gypsy Baron" is shown in rehearsal, registering a mixed reaction to Mr. Strauss' music. In a not unusual order, they are James Perrin '50, Marjorie Samsel, and William S. Wheeling '50, and (far right) Fred H. Gwynne...
...yards off, Foreman Giuseppe Tigano, who had left the Communist Party because he is one of the few believers in the Sila Project, was arguing heatedly with Michele Verardi. Tigano had ordered a gang to cut through a garden which Verardi rents from Baron Giulio Berlin-gieri. On the map (and all old inhabitants of Santa Severina confirmed this) a municipal road once ran through the garden. Through the years, Landlord Berlingieri's tenants had advanced little by little onto the road so that it gradually became part of the baronial property...
Once subsidized by the Habsburgs but now granted about $1,000,000 a year by the Austrian government, the company performs every night for ten months a year in two houses: major productions in the Theater an der Wien, lighter works such as The Gypsy Baron at the Volksoper in the U.S. zone. A good part of the company puts in an additional five weeks at the Salzburg Festival. Such continuous performing is one good reason for the high sheen of the company's ensemble...