Word: ebert
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Fritz Busch, Carl Ebert and Rudolf Bing (who left Glyndebourne in 1949 to go to the Met). In its search for "perfect opera." Glyndebourne now allows an unprecedented six weeks of rehearsal for each production, insists that with rare exceptions singers remain in residence at least four weeks-a provision that drives away heavily scheduled prima donnas...
...Stewart ever since they stopped knocking truitlessly on impresarios' doors in the U.S. four years ago. Schooled in borscht belt hotels and summer stock, they both won Fulbright scholarships and in 1957 entered Berlin's Hochschule für Musik. There they were discovered by Director Carl Ebert of the Berlin City Opera (predecessor of the Deutsche Opera Berlin), who signed them both for his company. Their debuts-Stewart's as Escamillo in Carmen in 1958. Lear's as the Composer in Ariadne the next year-started the couple on the road to recognition...
Swan Song. To start the season, Director Carl Ebert chose Mozart's Don Giovanni. The performance was to be a swan song for Ebert, who fled Germany in 1933 to become a U.S. citizen, returned to Berlin in 1954 to take up his old job as director of the City Opera. He was scheduled to retire after opening night, and he left on a high note. At opera's end, the audience enthusiastically applauded Native Son Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who sang Don Giovanni brilliantly, but the wildest cheers of its 15-minute ovation were for Ebert. The following...
...Joyce Ebert's compassionate Miranda and John Ragin's gallant Ferdinand are highly affecting. Their first meeting is one of the most sublime in all theatre, surpassed only perhaps by that of Siegfried and Brunnehilde in Wagner's Ring. In the log-toting scene, it is a lovely touch to have Ferdinand caress a log in his arms as he ruminates over his beloved, and then have Miranda embrace the same log out of bashfulness during their ensuing duologue. (Another inspired bit comes at the end when Prospero gives Ariel his much-desired freedom: here the fingertips...
Conquest (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). Taped in the Baltimore laboratories of Embryologist Dr. James Ebert, Life Before Birth follows his studies of cellular differentiation, his efforts to determine when, how and why a particular cell will begin to specialize...