Word: carmens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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March, "Los Banderillos" Volpsit *"Carmen," Suite Bits *"La Goyescas," Intermezzo Gransdon *"Capriccio Espagnol Rimsky-Korsler Alborada--Variations--Alboarda--Scene and Gypay Song--Faundango the Asturias *"Espana," Rhapsody Chabries Miss Miriam Winslow: a. Audalouse from "The Gid" Massenett b. Orgia from Danza Fautssica Turiar *Bolero Ravel *"El Amer Brujo" ("Love the Sorcerer") de Falke...
...suddenly fell ill and Lotte Lehmann took her place. In her fright she forgot all the hidebound traditions, the routine gestures. But she was so young and unaffected, her voice so richly expressive, that the Hamburgers wanted to hear her in other big parts. She was singing Micaela in Carmen one night while the Vienna Opera director sat in the audience. He had come to find a new tenor but next day the tenor was forgotten and Lehmann was shakily signing a contract which she never stopped to read...
...lineup which started the crucial Adams game and which will probably start the Yale game was: Morris, l.e.; Dunton, l.t.; Schwizer, l.g.; Foley, c.; Sise, r.g.; Carmen, r.t.; Emerson, r.e.; Crampton, q.; Hindel, r.h.b.; Bottomly, l.h.b.; Holmes...
...were given out for the first performances but to the management's amazement hundreds had to be turned away from the boxoffice. Passes were discontinued but people went on fighting to get into the Hippodrome (nearly 6,000 cap ). The repertoire was enlarged to include other standard operas. Carmen was to be given with a real live hull. The casts hastily scrambled together were surprisingly good. The orchestra was ragged, the scenery shoddy...
PERHAPS no one is better fitted to recount the fantastic, brilliant history of the post-war decade in Paris than Maurice Sachs. As the grandson of Bizet, composer of "Carmen," the grandson of Georges Sachs, the great friend of Anatole France and Briand, and of the Madame Straus Proust immortalized as Madame Verdurin, he was brought up among literary people whose reputations were already established. And later, as the protege of Cocteau, Maritain, and Max Jacob, he knew all that world of genius and bohemianism, so strange in its contradictions and all comprehending unity...