Word: fausts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Foolish was Faust, chemist-supreme of Marlowe...
First practical consequence of the Twentieth Century-Fox merger of last summer, Metropolitan includes an aria from The Barber of Seville, The Road to Mandalay and Glory Road in plain clothes, excerpts from Faust and Carmen, all sung by its affable, grape-nosed star with grace, good humor and superb enthusiasm. No better indication of the civilized qualities of the picture could be given than its adroit conclusion. Tibbett, harassed by the strain of running an opera company whose "angel" has deserted it, comes out to sing the prolog to Pagliacci. He does so in grand style to ringing applause...
...having arrived as the music season got under way early in August. Day after day, Tomaselli's and the Café Bazar were as international as the Place de 1'Opéra in Paris. Packjammed night after night were performances of Reinhardt's Jedermann and Faust, operas and concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic under Toscanini, Bruno Walter, Erich Kleiber, Felix Weingartner. Last week with the festival in its final days, neither love nor money could obtain tickets for any Toscanini event or for the final Walter performances of Mozart's Don Giovanni...
...Friday evening respectively, with Lotte Lehmann singing the part of Elsa in the former. It is interesting to note that this is the same role in which she made her debut before Boston audiences during the last season of the ill-fated Chicago Opera Company. "La Traviata," "Lakme," "Faust," "Peterlbbetson," and "Lucia da Lammermoor" are also being given in this week. Thus, a variety of German. French, Italian, and American opera is to be offered to Boston's musical palate in the space of one week, a slight compensation for the customary dearth of this type of higher entertainment...
...hungry and sleeps on the attic floor rolled up in a blanket. To counteract his habit of forgetting things his watch, his pocketbook, fountain pen, keys, etc. are attached to his clothes by an intricate system of safety pins and odd bits of string. He knows Goethe's Faust by heart, writes and speaks Latin fluently, discourses familiarly on the philosophy of Nietzsche, Spengler, hates beer...