Word: fidelio
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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Fidelio, with Flagstad, Svanholm, Schoeffler...
...main thing was that the program which began with Beethoven's Overture to Fidelio was easy to listen to; it was well played, though not sensationally so, and it left everyone in a good mood for the start of the season...
...innovation for the pit: Bruno Walter would conduct performances of Beethoven's opera Fidelio, with Flagstad as Leonore...
...tasks of The Magic Flute and Fidelio were really accomplished by the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler. The Flute was given first, before a sellout audience in the 300-year-old riding arena, carved out of the Monchsberg by the archbishops of Salzburg. "It is Mozart's turn," explained old Baron Heinrich Puthon, the festival's president. "Next year we will open with Fidelio so Beethoven will not be mad at us." For the Flute, the State Opera had no single great voice to offer, but its ensemble singing...
...Fidelio, the company had an unquestionably great voice, that of Guest Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, and Conductor Furtwngler gave a masterly reading of the score that won him a ten-minute personal ovation...