Word: fausts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...June, 1948 Rospigliosi received an excited phone call from Paolo Tamburella, producer of the laureled Italian movie, Shoeshine, directed by Vittorio (The Bicycle Thief) De Sica. Tamburella had shelved the picture he was shooting-a long, drawn-out story of Faust. In a discussion with an associate about their next venture, they suddenly recalled the Clock Fight story in TIME. They went to the American library in Rome and thumbed through back issues of TIME until they found the story. Having read it again, they agreed that it would make a first-rate movie...
...four months, tall, boyish-looking George London, 29, had become the rage of Vienna. Ever since he had first loosed his wide-ranged voice as Amonasro in A'ida, it seemed he could do no wrong. He had sung his first Mephistopheles in Faust, his first Escamillo in Carmen, his first Prince Galitsky in Prince Igor to bravos from the galleries and raves from the critics. When he sang the four baritone roles of Lindorf, Coppelius, Dappertutto and Doctor Miracle in Tales of Hoffman, there was a ten-minute ovation. Cracked one Austrian, as two Red army officers walked...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Gounod's Faust...