Word: fidelias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although the cultural commissars have just been converted to Beethoven, East German music lovers have steadfastly applauded him, but for different reasons: at a recent East Berlin Staatsoper performance of Beethoven's opera Fidelia, fans burst into applause after the Act I Freedom Chorus, stopped the show after Florestan's famous Act II aria, with its line, "I boldly said the truth, and chains are my reward...
...Opera (NBC, 3-5 p.m.). A reprise of the fine network-commissioned English version of Beethoven's Fidelia. Color...
Germany, Italy and Switzerland this fall. He is also scheduled to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic in six concerts in its home city and then take it on tour to London for a Beethoven cycle. December calls for a production of Fidelia at La Scala. And since he is now free of Salz burg, Edinburgh may seek his services for its music festival next year. Finally, there are reports that Von Karajan has privately expressed his ambition to conduct the opening of the new Metropolitan Opera House in New York...
...most brilliant young conductor now before U.S. audiences is the Metropolitan Opera's Kalamazoo-born Thomas Schippers, 29. At the season's first Forza del Destino last week, Schippers showed what he could do with an orchestra that only the week before, at the opening of Fidelia (TIME, Feb. 8), had sounded ragged and disorganized. "Tommy" Schippers had never conducted Verdi's Forza before, but he led orchestra and singers (Soprano Leonie Rysanek, Tenor Richard Tucker, both in top form) with a muscular authority that injected grand drama into every twist and turn of the tortuous plot...