Word: figaro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following is the program which will be rendered by an orchestra of 80 directed by Alfredo Casells: Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro" Mozart Air Bach Dance-Suite for String Orchestra Purcell-Bliss Overture to "Oberon" Weber Prelude and Love-Death from and Isolde" "Tristan Wagner "The Fountains of Rome," Symphonic Poem Respighi "Ballet of the Hours," from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli Waltz, "By the Beautiful Blue Danube" Strauss Second Hungarian Rhapsody Lisst
...this time physically. Most of his previous "deaths" have been political: One, when he failed as Prime Minister (1911-13) to create a Franco-German commercial entente, and was denounced by Frenchmen as a traitor; Two, when scandals touching his private life were exposed by Editor Calmette of Le Figaro who was therefore shot dead by Mme. Caillaux; Three, when M. Caillaux was sentenced for High Treason (1920) because he was thought to have intrigued for a defeatist peace with Germany; and finally Four, when as Finance Minister, after an astounding comeback from prison to Power, he dismally failed...
...Coty owns Figaro and Gaulois, and the new Ami du Peuple, founded some months ago and sold, in spite of bitter opposition by other papers and the news-vending organizations controlled by them, at the cut-rate of two sous. The usual price of a paper in Paris is five sous (25 centimes, about one cent). With headlines that would be called flaring in Paris, with crime stories played up, it was said to have attained already a circulation of around 800,000. However, in France circulations are not audited; so it was equally possible to believe (or doubt) Helen...
Mozart's Marriage of Figaro...
Second week: Monday evening, December 3, Carmen; Tuesday evening, December 4, Butterfly; Wednesday matinee, December 5, Pagliacci and The Legend of the Piper: Wednesday evening, December 5, Faust, Thursday evening, December 6, Figaro; Friday eveing, December 7, Carmen; Saturday matinee, December 8, Faust; Saturday evening, December 8, Martha...