Word: figaro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mdzart's Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro" opens this evening's concert by the Boston Symphony in Sanders Theatre. Following this delightful work is the Brahms Concerto for Pianoforte No. 2 in B flat with Artur Schnabel as soloist. As an artist, Mr. Schnabel is always the servant of the spirit of the music as well as the absolute master of its performance--a eulogy which cannot be applied to many. The work itself is a rather amazing combination of concerto and symphony and is considered by many a none too happy example of Brahms's genius. The concert...
Operatic comedies have had the most success in translation. The Cleveland Orchestra has given praiseworthy performances of Die Fledermaus and The Secret of Suzanne in English. Philadelphia excelled with Falstaff and The Marriage of Figaro last winter. All children want to understand the words when they go to Hansel and Gretel, a fact recognized years ago by the touring San Carlo Company...
...this period he wrote The Marriage of Figaro, which Louis XVI promptly suppressed. A brilliant comedy, relating the conflict of a lackey and his noble master, its revolutionary implications were plain, for it presented the lackey as witty, resourceful, strong. For the first time, a member of the lower class was pictured as a hero on the formal Paris stage. Inconsistently, the bored nobles demanded the presentation of a play which ridiculed them and delighted the masses, forced Louis to withdraw...
...sung but flamingly conducted by Walter, Salzburg this year heard little of Wagner. It liked best the effete Viennese gaiety of Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, the bubbling Italian gaiety of Verdi's Falstaff, the pure charm of Mozart's Don Giovanni, Cosi Fan Tutte, Il Seraglio, Figaro. Toscanini electrified audiences with Beethoven's Fidelio but he also made a great point of reviving a disused ''Reformation" symphony by Mendelssohn, banned in Germany because its composer was a Jew. This he played last Sunday in a broadcast to the U. S., in a series sponsored...
...publisher; of pneumonia; in Louveciennes, France. Like Napoleon, to whom he claimed distant kinship, he was born in Ajaccio, Corsica. He built a small perfumer's shop, in which a brother-in-law gave him a job, into an internationally known organization. He published ten French newspapers, including Le Figaro, of which the most successful was L'Ami du Peuple which sold for two sous when other Paris newspapers cost five. In 1929 he lost half his fortune, then estimated at $34,000,000, to his divorcing and suing wife, the onetime Yvonne Alexandrine Le Baron, now publisher...