Word: fausts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though the Metropolitan's headline singers are gone for the summer, last week's young contingent successfully presented such operas as Faust, Il Trovatore and La Bohème. In Faust pretty Hilda Burke made a pathetic, simple Marguerite, used her small voice conscientiously but not tragically. Leon Rothier, a veteran Mephistopheles, had most assurance and most art. Good-looking Donald Dickson made his Metropolitan debut as Valentine. Even nervousness could not rob him of the strong, clear baritone and fine dramatic sense that first made scouts notice him when he was a Pennsylvania steelworker...
...called for twelve performances in Boston, two in Baltimore, eight in Cleveland, winds up this week with a one-night stand in Rochester. Back in Manhattan the Metropolitan prepared for its second "spring season" at popular prices. Pianist Lee Pattison, appointed manager for this series, announced Faust for the opening night, May 3.† He promised Walter Damrosch's new opera, The Man Without a Country, for the second week, expected the series would last at least a month, maybe longer unless the weather gets...
...first two recitals will be held with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the selections being sung coming from the "Faust" symphony of Liszt. The Brooklyn Academy of Music will be the scene of the first appearance Friday, and on Saturday afternoon they will sing at Carnegie Hall...
Other revivals in yesterday's installment included "A Trip to the Moon" produced in 1902, "The Great Train Robbery" of 1903, "Faust" of 1907, and Sarah Bernhardt in "Queen Elizabeth" released in 1911. This series gave some idea of the beginnings of the film industry, when the camera was held in one position, and the characters moved back and forth in front of it, never approaching or receding, thus giving the effect of the legitimate stage. "Queen Elizabeth" was the last and most highly developed of this type and since it was smoother and clearer the acting technique could...
...into Wagnerian thunder. Vina Bovy, cast as the Hindoo maid, remained Vina Bovy and gave little support to Basso Leon Rothier who made Nilakantha piteous with his fits of love and fury. Not till the middle of the week brought a competent Aïda and a warm, vivid Faust in French did critics feel confidence in Director Johnson's French & Italian wings...