Word: fidelio
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...high spot of vocal gymnastics spoke most strongly for the Princeton Club. Barely any "falling apart" or less of unison accompanied the tricky arpeggios in Beethoven's "Oh, What Delight," the Prisoners Chorus from "Fidelio," "Maiden Fair" suffered from the basses and "My Lovely Celia" from the inarticulate delivery of the lyric...
...directors ever faced a tougher job. The roof of the great theater where the Weimar Republic was born was crumpled up in the auditorium. With Russian help he managed to get the damage repaired. He hired actors to start producing Nathan der Weise, As You Like It, Fidelio, Rigoletto, Tales of Hoffmann, and Illegal Ones, a play about the German underground...
Only in Switzerland, in freedom's land, has Flagstad sung. There, fortnight ago, at Zurich, she sang in three operas. One was Beethoven's Fidelio, in which the heroine flourishes her pistol at a tyrant...
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...