Word: carmens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their choruses, second-string sing ers and orchestra players, Laurence Productions drew largely upon Cleveland tal ent. They assembled 500 performers for Carmen, plus donkeys and mules. To last year's spectacular Aïda, they added 100 new spear-carriers. The small, patient, well-scrubbed elephant of Aïda was present once more, figured also in Tom-Tom. In Die Walkure there were not the usual nine but 17 Valkyries galloping over the mountain. Brünnehilde's eight new sisters were given made-up. Wagnerian-sounding names like "Ritthelle." "Kampfsiege," "Trautschilde." There were real...
...first unit opera stage, has the largest portable outdoor stage lighting equipment ever assembled. They built ten great ramps tilted toward the audience, broke these up into myriad levels. There is a revolving unit 30 ft. high, which last week furnished a mountain pass in Carmen, a monster throne and then a tomb in AH da, the waterfall in Tom-Tom. For the mountain in last week's Die Walküre, nothing less than a real one would do, so Laurence Productions built...
...world's ends to win fortunes which, at an agreed date, they are to return to share. The time is up. George Senterre returns to Paris rolling in wealth. Jean Perlon, who has won nothing but a sunburn meets him; on their first night's celebration they run into Carmen, their friend Gernicot's fiancee. Both men desire Carmen, but Gernicot, traveling with Namotte, is due to arrive on the Mauretania. Just out of port Namotte is tossed overboard. Gernicot arrives in a bad state of nerves, full of wild talk about a mystery man with a red beard...
...hair now honey-blonde because she was "tired of being a red-haired hussy all my life," Soprano Mary Garden, 55, arrived in the U. S. from Europe to sing Carmen in Cleveland this week. Said she, patting her middle: "Here I work like the devil getting this figure and then they always find some big fat blonde to point out as Mary Garden! ... I am at last heartbroken over a man. He is, alas, Andrea Spada. I have been in Corsica where he was a swashbuckling brigand and I loved him so much I named my dog after...
...informal, easygoing. For them there should be staple fare, easy to look at as well as listen to. All the better if the impresario can jumble onto his stage spear-carriers, dancing girls, supernumeraries by the score. If possible, let there be animals! Could there be camels in Carmen? Elephants in Pelleas et Melisande? Hardly. Of all operatic staples, Aïda does best outdoors. Consequently, Aïda's familiar tunes ring sweetly every summer in many a U. S. stadium. Biggest and most pompous ever was Cleveland's last summer, in which more than...