Word: fidelio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outstanding on the program is "The Defense of Corinth" by Eliot Carter '30, which was first presented this year. Other selections include the "Prisoners' Chorus From Fidelio" by Beethoven, a Bach Chorale, a Mozart canon, a Czechoslovakian folk song by Dvorak, and songs by Lotti, Brahms, Gay and Pepusch, Offenbach and Sullivan...
...There were a "novelty" (Gluck's Alceste) and eight operatic "revivals," some of them works which had been out of the repertory a mere three or four years. Best were those conducted by Bruno Walter: Mozart's Don Giovanni, Beethoven's Fidelio...