Word: ernstli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stravinsky's 1927 opera-oratorio, Oedipus Rex, preceded by Ernst Krenek's three Medea monologues, sung by the Met's Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom...
...Literally, rocky riding school. It was carved out of a Salzburg hillside to form an area where trained horses performed elaborate steps to music for the amusement of 17th century Archbishop Johann Ernst. Arcades and boxes honeycomb a side wall of solid rock. In 1933 Max Reinhardt used the space for his great production of Goethe's Faust...
After one rare evening that ended in a Brahms string sextet played by Casals, with Violinists Menuhin and Arpad Gerescz. Violists Ernst Wallfisch and Karen Tuttle and Cellist Madeline Foley, the Queen left the audience and walked up onto the stage. Menuhin greeted her with a kiss on the cheek, then led her backstage to congratulate the shy Casals and the other members of the sextet...
...Died. Ernst Legal, 74, veteran German actor, theater manager and director, post-World War II manager of the State Opera in East Berlin; in Berlin. Invited by East Berlin's Communist regime to manage the State Opera, Legal rebuilt it into one of Europe's important cultural showcases, resigned in 1952 in protest against the firing of 250 opera employees living in West Berlin...
Rossini: Stabat Mater (Maria Stader, Marianna Radev, Ernst Häfliger, Kim Borg; RIAS Symphony conducted by Ferenc Fricsay; Decca, 2 LPs). The composer who was once advised by Beethoven to stick to comic opera, here turns up in a churchly (if not always churchlike) mood. The chorus sings some lofty and properly devotional counter point, but the lovely solo voices have arias that bounce and flow with the joyfulness of the Barber of Seville. Performance: elegant...