Word: feuersnot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week two premieres were announced for a double bill. Die Maien- konigen was the curtain-raiser, a pastoral meringue, mixed & baked, it is said, by no less a man than Gluck for the birthday palate of Maria Theresa. Then came Richard Strauss's Feuersnot...
...opera houses of Europe, Feuersnot is an old story. Strauss finished it in 1901 (it antedates Salome, Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, his three operas known in the U. S.) when the afterglow of the Mightier Richard still blinded the young composers of the day, sending tunes from Tristan and Siegfried watered and warped into a thousand insignificant attempts. But Strauss even then could stand alone. He quoted, to be sure, from Rheingold but he quoted deliberately, when it suited him to have Wagner pop out of the back-ground of his libretto as the great forerunner of himself?the great Strauss...
...last output in this form is his Alpine Symphony and the Wedding Prelude, written for his son Franz's nuptials early this year. The Baby of the Sinfonia has grown up. Strauss is almost as famous for his operas as for his tone-poems. These are Guntram (1894), Feuersnot (1901), Salome (1905) which raised a storm and had to be suppressed when it first came to the U. S. but which now pro vides Mary Garden with one of her favorite roles, Elektra (1909) at the first production of which the composer wanted real live bulls on the stage...