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...repertory for the visit consisted mostly of works passed down through the company's musical heritage directly from those composers' hands. There was Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, premiered in Vienna in 1786 with Mozart himself conducting from the keyboard. There was Beethoven's Fidelio, also first produced in Vienna with the composer presiding, in 1805. From the 20th century there were Salome and Ariadne auf Naxos, the latter premiered in Vienna in 1916 and both composed by one of the State Opera's long line of distinguished directors, Richard Strauss...
...added to the repertory this week were Ariadne and a Beethoven-Wagner orchestral program. Next week, after a 17-day run in Washington, the company will go to New York, where it will repeat the Ninth and the Beethoven-Wagner program and present a concert version of Fidelio...
...there an opera house in the world that boasts a better orchestra than Vienna's? Whether in the iridescent pulsations of Salome or the silky, intimate lyricism of Figaro, or the architectural sweep of Fidelio, the orchestra played like a first-rate symphonic ensemble - which, of course, is what it is. When not in the opera pit, it is the renowned Vienna Philharmonic. With Bernstein again on the podium, it excelled last week in a highly dramatic, virtuoso performance of Beethoven's Ninth. Bernstein tended to heighten what needed no heightening, but by the time the final movement...
Beethoven's "Fidelio" on film--Loeb Drama Center...
Other maestros may prepare for a major performance by going over the score in solitude. Not Austria's white-maned Conductor Herbert von Karajan, 63-flyer, skier, yachtsman and fast-car buff. A few hours before the première of a Karajan-produced, Karajan-directed, Karajan-conducted Fidelio at Salzburg's Easter festival, he climbed into his souped-up Ford GT 40 and took on a twisting mountain road at speed. When he whined around a curve to face a juggernaut diesel on the wrong side of the road, Karajan took evasive action, turned the Ford over...