Word: fausts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Opera (Sun. 7 p.m., Mutual). All-French program, in honor of Bastille Day. Arias from Meyerbeer's L'Africaine, Massenet's Manon, Bizet's The Pearl Fishers, Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, Gounod's Faust...
...Goethe: Faust I finished at 59; Faust II finished...
...while Baritone Duncan quietly practiced six operatic roles (Tonio in 7 Pagliacci, Escamillo in Carmen, Rigoletto, Germont in Traviata, the Ethiopian King in Aïda and Valentin in Faust). Last week his chance came-from New York's municipal, low-priced opera company, presided over by a self-conscious champion of race equality. Mayor F. H. LaGuardia. Todd Duncan made his debut in I Pagliacci, followed it two nights later with Carmen. Sympathetic audiences cheered him long. Critics were almost as loud in praise of his singing, hoped his acting would improve. Musically, LaGuardia's opera company...
Barriers Burned. Some of the refugees were readily assimilated. The Oswego High School graduated six of the refugees in June, and Principal Ralph Faust was impressed with their maturity and eagerness. Seven girls enrolled in the local business college. At the Fort, where private welfare groups like B'nai B'rith aided a recreation and work program, women crowded the beauty-culture school. Men and boys learned woodworking. Olga and Michael Mikhailoff-who once were in Italian films -got an amateur theater going. Carl Selan, who used to represent 20th Century-Fox in Zagreb, booked movies into...
...first time since the 1940 blitz, when German bombs drowned out a performance of Faust, London's Sadler's Wells Theater reopened last week. Opening night, the premiere of Benjamin Britten's tragic opera, Peter Grimes, was London's biggest musical event in five years...