Word: fidelias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Vienna celebrated the centennial of its baroque musical shrine on the Ringstrasse. One of the city's favorite visitors, Leonard Bernstein, opened the festivities with a stunning performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. Next evening Karl Böhm conducted Beethoven's Fidelia, with a cast that included American Tenor Jess Thomas and Soprano Leonie Rysanek of New York's Metropolitan Opera. The week's musical highlight was undoubtedly Mozart's Don Giovanni, which was performed on the gala May night in 1869 when the Emperor Franz Josef presided over the opening...
...brilliant intellectual and social haut monde in Salzburg for the music festival. He is a self-conscious blunderer, but the one thing he understands far better than his indifferent friends is the true nature of Hitler's mania. The Jew and Gentile gathered to hear Toscanini conduct Fidelia cling to the illusion that Austria is protected by some ineluctable immunity. But after watching his barber preen in his new National Socialist uniform, and after seeing the troopers take over the best restaurants, Stanley knows that he must get out. He realizes that the society that obsesses him is committing...
...year-old composer set the work aside for eight years. Then he undertook extensive revisions. "Hardly a musical number has been left unchanged," he wrote to a Vienna newspaper, "ard more than half the opera was composed anew." Finally, in May 1814, Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera, Fidelia, was produced again at a different Vienna theater-and immediately became...
Operas do convey a great deal of meaning, even in the unlikely areas of politics or sociology; Fidelia is a highly moving musical treatise on freedom, The Marriage of Figaro on the corruption of aristocracy, Don Carlos on the dilemmas of power. Opera plots and music are sexy. Most operatic heroines fail to wait for the wedding ceremony (Manon, Mimi, Tosca, Aïda, Carmen, Santuzza, Brünnhilde), and they (Norma, Marguerite, Sieglinde, Suor Angelica) have a lot of illegitimate children. Whatever one may think of the plots, one remembers the characters. Rigoletto may end up absurdly with...
Taylor and his wife, the former Fidelia Leverett Moore plan to move to their summer home in Jaffrey, N.H. He says he will "grow flowers and chase birds" and finish some long-postponed research on the French Assembly...