Word: figaro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Favorite target of Prague wits is the plump, unlearned wife of Premier Klement Gottwald. They say she met a friend who twittered: "We are going tonight to the Marriage of Figaro. Will you be there...
...Paris newspaper Le Figaro had advice on that question. Learnedly snatching a line from Henri IV (to the Duc de Crillon), it paraphrased in headlines: BRAVE GALLUP, Go HANG YOURSELF. But the French were not so severe about it as that sounded...
Last year's production of "Figaro" and "Don Giovanni" proved to all who saw them the advantages of this new fluidity in opera. Mozart's "Idomoneo", produced at Tanglewood in 1947 for the first time on this continent, was a superb example of Goldovsky's ability to produce works considered impossible by most companies...
...dailies started up. Last week there were only 19 left (plus 170 weeklies). Most likely survivors of the present crisis: the mildly Socialist France-Soir* edited by hard-boiled Pierre Lazareff (TIME, June 23) and now France's biggest paper (circ. 641,000); the Communist Humanite; the Catholic Figaro, famed for its high literary standards; L'Aurore, which rides the De Gaulle bandwagon; the witty, leftist (but not quite Commie) Franc-Tireur; sober Le Monde, the businessman's bible; and Parisien Libere, favorite of the petit bourgeoisie...
...Giovanni" is Grand Opera in the fullest and most serious sense of the term, a fullness that neither "Figaro" nor "Idomenco," the previous efforts of the New England group, attempts to duplicate. The essential weakness of the performance yesterday was its failure to recognize Grand Opera, its insistence upon petty tricks of gesture and staging in place of the "grand style" that is dead for many things, but not for "Don Giovanni...