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...rowdy crowds filled Cleveland's Public Hall last summer when Coughlinites, Townsendites and Republicans convened there. Last week the big auditorium was packed decorously with Cleveland's best, to hear the Metropolitan Opera Company sing in their city for the first time in five years. For Le Coq d'Or and Cavalleria Rusticana on the opening night, the turnout was 9,425, biggest house the Metropolitan has ever had.* At next night's Tristan the house was almost as full. Ticket sales for the week's engagement beat all records, added a final gracenote...
Manager Johnson's second season has abounded in revivals and premieres. Wagner's Flying Dutchman was put on for the first time in five years, and Flagstad and Baritone Friedrich Schorr made it unforgettable. In a revival of Rimsky-Korsakov's Coq d'Or, Lily Pons danced as well as sang the role of the unearthly siren who lured fat, fantastic King Dodon to his doom. Coq d'Or was successful enough to be repeated four times. Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman was almost as popular in spite of over-ingenious mounting by Stage...
...operas are to be sung in English. Manager Johnson also plans revivals of such operas as Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, Wagner's Flying Dutchman, Saint-Saens's Samson et Dalila, Smetana's Bartered Bride (held over from last spring), Rimsky-Korsakov's Le Coq d'Or (for which Lily Pons spent this summer learning how to dance & kick), Mozart's Don Giovanni, Bellini's Norma...
...Wedding March from "Le Coq d'Or"Rimsky-Korsakov *Overture to "Russian and Ludmilla" Glinka Variations on the Austrian National Anthem (from the String Quartet, Op. 76, No. 3 Haydn "Briar Rose," Waltz Tchaikovsky Orgy of the Spirits from the Oriental Suite, "Noure and Anitra" Hynsky *"Dreams" Wagner Violin Solo: Julius Theodorowicz *March Slave Tchaikovsky Hans Wiener and Dance Group with Orchestra *"La Valse" Ravel *Roumanian Rhapsody Enesco Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square
...Coq Rouge (65 E. 56th St.). Luminous glass wall murals, showing aeroplane night views of New York City. Irvin Gilbert's music...