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...Fredric March in Front Page, a Roy Rogers rodeo. NBC will also give opera, ballet and concert-hall music their biggest boost as popular art forms with the Sadler's Wells Ballet's Cinderella, Puccini's La Boheme, Verdi's La Traviata, Beethoven's Fidelio, the world premiere of Prokofiev's War and Peace and Sol Hurok's Music Festival. Producer Max Liebman will try to develop Comic Buddy Hackett as a top comedian with a half-hour comedy series...
...they took comfort from the presence of Secretary of State Dulles, Composer Dmitry Shostakovich, Conductor Bruno Walter, .Industrialists Henry Ford II and Harvey S. Firestone Jr. Above all. the city which can name no less than 28 houses in which Beethoven lived, gloried in the opening-night work: Fidelio, Beethoven's only opera, which had had its premiere exactly 150 years before-in occupied Vienna (at that time the occupying armies were Napoleon...
...TIME, June 13) had been fitted with an underpass and Vienna's first escalators, which contributed their share of excitement (INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE WITH ESCALATORS AND FiDELio headlined one Vienna tabloid). Nearby streets sprouted new arc lights and fresh flowers. Not in years had Vienna's women had a similar occasion for dressing up; archducal and bourgeois jewelry alike came out of hock or hiding. Demel's, Vienna's calorie-proud confectioner, combined Austria's two major treasures-music and food-in an exhibition of sugar figurines representing notable Vienna opera greats, e.g., Sopranos Maria Jeritza...
Beethoven: Fidelio (Rose Bampton, Jan Peerce, Herbert Janssen; NBC Symphony conducted by Arturo Toscanini; Victor, 2 LPs). Beethoven's only opera, which he reworked, shaped and worried over until it was as lean and passionate as he could make it. Its story-of a devoted wife who rescues her husband from a vengeful tyrant-is projected with all the heat of Toscanini's conviction. It was recorded in 1944 from the earliest of the maestro's-famed operatic broadcasts, but the fine performers sound through the technical imperfections...
...Chairman George A. Sloan: "Tonight we are overwhelmed by the realization that we have seen you and heard you on this stage for the last time . . ." Cries of "No, no" went up. Sloan reeled off Flagstad's greatest roles from a commemorative silver cup: "Isolde . . . Briinnhilde . . . Elsa . . . Kundry . . . Fidelio . . . Alcestis...