Word: fausts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magisterial lash of the hand stopped the orchestra. The abashed boy & girl players looked like a tableau of The Damnation of Faust. Said Conductor Koussevitzky: "It doesn't sound." Then he added gently: "But we will arrive. We will arrive...
...success lies the colorful shrewdness of Impresario Fortune Gallo. Unlike top-flight opera companies, Gallo's San Carlo keeps away from operas which are artistic monuments but financial hazards. For its 20,000-mile tour this season, 13 operas were enough. Seven of them (Aïda, Carmen, Faust, Trovatore, Rigoletto, Traviata, Boheme) are such longtime favorites that Gallo's troupe has given them more than 1,000 times apiece...
...first performance of the play at Salzburg created such a favorable impression that it became a tradition yearly feature, before the war, throughout Germany and Austria. The plot is a greatly elaborated and modernized version of the theme of "Faust...
...rationalism and the roots of Nazi philosophy. Romanticism, Viereck believes, is the expression of maladjustment. Whatever its various forms, whether Thoreau or Schlegel, Romanticism is the rebellion of those who can't solve their problems in the forms society prescribes. Ardent seekers after "the full life" may be a Faust or a white collar girl reading pulp magazines. "Freud after all had a word for it," Viereck comments shrewdly. Considering the ancient psychological distortion of the German mind, Viereck finds a violent expression of it inevitable...
They number 19 young, talented sing ers, who expertly shake 19 operas-in-English out of their sleeves. Newest Phila delphia stunt is to have a tenor sing the incredible quasi-male operatic roles usu ally warbled by women in tights-Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, Siebel in Faust, Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, Prince Orlofsky in The Bat, Nicklausse in The Tales of Hoffmann...