Word: fausts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York City Opera's smart Director Laszlo Halasz was feeling pretty pleased with the repertory of his crack little company. Mozart was well taken care of, with bright, fast-paced productions of The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni. So were the French, with Carmen and Faust, and the Italians, with Aida, La Boheme, Tosca, La Traviata. There was only one cloud in an otherwise sunny sky, but that one was a thunderhead: Wagner. Last week, with the help of an old Wagnerian, Halasz dissipated...
...veteran Hansel and Gretel witch, Dorothee Manski, and some new stars, including Soprano Evelyn (The Medium) Keller, to help put her Hex over. Unhappily, she had failed to decide exactly what kind of music they should all sing. To many a mystified listener, Hex sounded like Faust one moment, Friml's Rose Marie another...
Amazed at Fon W. Boardman's list of the ten "most boring" classics to "most people," in TIME, July 17 ... It is unquestionable that Richardson's Pamela, Cervantes' Don Quixote, Goethe's Faust and others in his list may be boring to those in search of thrills . . . [But] bores do not become classics, nor do their works last four centuries...
...Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Melville's Moby Dick, Milton's Paradise Lost, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, Richardson's Pamela, Eliot's Silas Marner, Scott's Ivanhoe, Cervantes' Don Quixote, Goethe's Faust...
...success Berlioz wanted most came almost too late. As an operatic composer he won the respect of his contemporaries -Wagner, that "gay fat man" Rossini, Meyerbeer, Auber-but not the plaudits of the public. His Benvenuto Cellini flopped after four performances; the "concert opera" Damnation of Faust fell with a thud. When he was 59 and Beatrice and Benedict and The Trojans at Carthage had achieved a success, a friend remarked that people were finally coming to his operas. Replied the ailing Berlioz: "Yes, but I am going." Six years later, Berlioz was gone. At the end came an incident...