Word: elektra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opus in several of the world's important operatic centres, might have been chastened by this experience. But he was not. Before two years were out, he and his librettist, the late Hugo von Hofmannsthal, had turned out another grisly melodrama, a Freudian version of the Greek tragedy Elektra. In this second blood-curdler, the hag-ridden heroine danced gleefully while the dying screeches of her father's murderers floated from behind the backdrop...
...music by Jewish composers has been rigidly enforced, racial borderline cases, Jew-"Aryan" collaborations, and other knotty problems have kept Nazi theoreticians in a perpetual dither. "Aryan" Composer Richard Strauss's operas have escaped the ban, though several of his most successful (Die Schweigsame Frau, Der Rosenkavalier, Elektra) have librettos by Jews. Also unbanned, and of Jewish authorship, are librettos of "Aryan" Composer Franz Lehar's operettas (The Merry Widow, et al.). Carmen, a perennial favorite in German opera houses, was written by French Composer Georges Bizet, who is generally credited with some Jewish blood. Kulturkammer authorities...
...title part will be sung by Rose Pauly, famous interpreter of Strauss roles, both in central Europe and at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Mino Pauly's "Elektra" has been outstanding in the current New York operatic season...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Com-pany never considered Elektra a best seller. Yet when the opera was revived last week at the Met, a capacity audience, including silk hats and standees, gave it the lustiest ovation heard there in several seasons. Principal object of their applause: a dark, hefty Hungarian soprano. Rose Pauly. who heaved and panted through 15 curtain calls after her Metropolitan debut in the title role. Other objects : the sinister, pasty-faced Klytemnestra of Kerstin Thorborg; the brilliant conducting of Artur Bodanzky. Pauly, whose last year's appearance in a concert version of Elektra under...
Though she boasts a repertory of 67 operatic roles, it is her Elektra that has made Rose Pauly famous in Central European opera houses. Before a recent appearance at the Venice Opera, a dinner was given in her honor by Mussolini. During the festivities she remarked to a nearby stranger, "I think that we at least ought to see Mussolini here. I'm so disappointed because he won't be present when I'm singing ." "I'm sorry too," said the stranger, "but I have to go to Rome for " then added, "you must be almost...