Word: cosi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus does a young Viennese named Paul Csonka, who assembled a troupe of young singers in 1934, explain what he set out to do. For six months in a quiet Tyrolese village his troupe rehearsed one opera, Mozart's Cosi fan tutte. After a season in Vienna, Csonka moved it to Salzburg, though it had no connection with the summer music festivals, and adopted the name, Salzburg Opera Guild. Last summer, rehearsing twelve hours a day in a rented castle at Mondsee near Salzburg, the Guild increased its repertory of operas. Last week, under the management of astute...
...With Cosi fan tutte ("They all do it") as its opener, the Guild showed that, though it could not do much for the vocal side of opera, it could, theatrically, provide as agreeable a romp as anything that had been sung on a Manhattan stage in years. Viennese Theo Otto's frivolous set and gay 18th-Century costumes-worn by opera singers who for once looked perfectly at home in them-made a completely plausible background for Mozart's tale of deception which proves that all women are fickle...
...single Tristan und Isolde, poorly sung but flamingly conducted by Walter, Salzburg this year heard little of Wagner. It liked best the effete Viennese gaiety of Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, the bubbling Italian gaiety of Verdi's Falstaff, the pure charm of Mozart's Don Giovanni, Cosi Fan Tutte, Il Seraglio, Figaro. Toscanini electrified audiences with Beethoven's Fidelio but he also made a great point of reviving a disused ''Reformation" symphony by Mendelssohn, banned in Germany because its composer was a Jew. This he played last Sunday in a broadcast...
...catholic enough to do credit to many a better-known company. Last week of the 31,000 people who thronged the pier, 1,200 filled the theatre, heard the opening double bill: Pagliacci and The Secret of Suzanne. Besides staples, the summer schedule includes such rarities as Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, Donizetti's Don Pasquale, Bach's Phobus and Pan, Debussy's L'Enfant prodigue, Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona...