Word: bizet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Geraldine Farrar's modernized version oi Bizet's masterpiece, Carmen (TIME, Apr. 21), will open at Portsmouth, N. H., on Sept. 26. After a tour of New England, it will enter Manhattan, surely with many triumphal trumpet-blares. The preliminary fanfare announces that this will be different from all other Carmens, including even Miss Farrar's own Metropolitan-Carman and her cinema-Carman. It will be an "operatic fantasie," with the score treated in a distinctly novel fashion and the whole production "completely severed from all operatic tradition...
Other productions will include Bizet's Pearl Fishers, Montemezzi's Love of Three Kings, Debussy's Pélleas et Mélisande, Auber's Fra Diavolo, Meyerbeer's Prophet, Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann. Entirely new stage sets have been built for several of these. Among the singers there will appear Mary Garden (of course), Louise Homer, Florence Macbeth, Edith Mason, Charles Hackett, Feodor Chaliapin...
This evening's program follows: March, "Cruiser Harvard" Strube Overture, "Maximillian Robespierre" Littolff Waltz, "Espana" Waldteufel Simmons Songs Fantasia, "Carmen" Bizet Largo from the "New World" Symphony Dvorak Volga Bargemen's Song Arranged by Jacchia Rustic Dance, "Snow Maiden" Rimsky-Korsakow Selection, "Stepping Stones" Kern Invitation to the Dance Wener-Berliez American Patrol Meacham
...attend the orchestra concerts of a week in the music season." How many such must there be! The work comprised 14 quotations from Beethoven, seven from Tschaikowski, three each from Dvorak and Brahms, two each from Schubert and Liszt, and one each from Johann Strauss, Mozart, Franck, Mahler, Bizet, Verdi, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Mascagni. The mixing of musical drinks could not go much farther. And the audience said: "Delightful...
...however, the Farrar Carmen is coming back. Geraldine's manager announced last week that an independent company is being formed. Its repertoire will consist of but one opera - Bizet's masterpiece. The singers, revolving like planets around the central Farrar-sun, will all be artists of proved ability, the orchestra will be conducted by a "former conductor of the Metropolitan," the dances will be arranged by the "foremost Russian master of choregraphy now resident "in New York," the costumes will be cut from original designs by an atelier in West 57th St., Manhattan, and the scenic effects will...