Word: carmens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seat that in the winter season sold for $7. Price-range for 1,500 places was from 25? to $1.50. Result was that customers popped up who had never been inside the Metropolitan before. Though the Company's headline singers were gone for the summer, there was a Carmen complete with horses, a Rigoletto and a sprightly new English version of Smetana's Bartered Bride...
...Damnation of Faust" Berlioz Minuet of the Will-o-the -wisps-Ballet of the Sylphs-Rakocsy March "Pirates Island" Mabel W. Daniels Recitative and Air of Azael, from "L'Enfant Prodigue" Debussy Soloist: Elizabeth Beaman, Soprano Divertissement Ibert *"Selection, "The Gondoliers" Sullivan *"Artists' Life," Waltzes Strauss *"Prelude to "Carmen" Bizet...
Singing the title role of Carmen in Baltimore, Rosa Ponselle fought so determinedly with Don Jose in the third act that she crashed to the stage, broke...
...Schuster sign their chirrupy advertisements, came out with the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas newly edited by Pianist Artur Schnabel. Last January the firm hired a music editor, German-born Emil Hilb, who conducted the Denver Philharmonic in 1932-33. Last week Simon & Schuster published "Four Operatic Masterpieces"*-excerpts from Carmen, Faust, Tannhduser, II Trovatore, transcribed for players of average ability by Pianist Leopold Godowsky. Handsomely illustrated and containing notes on opera plots and composers, the venture, if it clears expenses, will belie Simon & Schuster's assertion that music publishing is for them no more than a labor of love...
...directions. The other was Sweden's Gertrud Wettergren, who proved herself a sure singing actress, strode the stage regally as Amneris in Aïda, personified devotion when she sang Brangäne in Tristan and Isolde. One of the season's highlights was when Wettergren sang Carmen (in Swedish), her reward for standing by to pinch-hit for Rosa Ponselle. The U. S. soprano worked like a demon to impersonate the Spanish gypsy. Box-officially she succeeded but critics were unimpressed...