Word: decoratively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neither stage presence nor the power to match the Nilsson salvos. Baritone Walter Cassel as Kurvenal and Bass Jerome Hines as King Mark both turned in workmanlike performances, and Soprano Irene Dalis was impressive as Brangaene. Conductor Karl Boehm led his orchestra through a methodical reading. As for the decor, with the world's best to choose from, the Met had again picked the second-rate. The sets by German Designer Teo Otto were pedestrian and confusing: starkly realistic castle turrets and ramparts set alongside fanciful, gold-leafed trees and stylized, sawtooth waves...
...company has been the scenic inventiveness of the gifted young American designers whom Miss Caldwell has commissioned. One of the handsomest operatic settings I have ever seen was the elegant interior of Bartolo's house that Robert O'Hearn conceived for last spring's Barber. Robert Fletcher's decor for the new Tosca continues this very commendable tradition...
...elegant, beautiful sets and costumes ever seen on the Metropolitan stage. Unfortunately, however, Messel's scenery was designed for an earlier production at Glyndebourne and has merely been adapted to the Metropolitan stage. Scaling up a small set doesn't always work at the Met and the second act decor, the boudoir of the Contessa, looks like an oversized parlor of an English country home...
...decor is traditionally Spanish black and white. The floor is black and white tile, the walls are white stucco. A mural maintaining the black and white motif will eventually fill one wall. The room is discreetly well lit, and the limited number of tables avoids the danger of overcrowding...
...activities. At last week's dedication, a police inspector duly watched as reverent Jews queued up to kiss the Torah, listened blandly as the congregation chanted its ancient Hebrew prayers. The service over, the inspector congratulated Congregation President Louis Abraham Blitz on the synagogue's impressive decor, shook hands all around and left. President Blitz led the assembled Jews in a tactful prayer: "May God look with kindness upon the chief of the Spanish state...