Word: figaro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...include five or six tests. The tests have evoked surprisingly little controversy in France itself. When the Bishop of Orleans publicly castigated the government's nuclear armament policy last week, Admiral Marc de Joybert, naval chief of staff, haughtily told the bishop in an open letter to Le Figaro: "Take care of your own onions. Your job, Monsignor, is to teach the faith and spread charity. Our role is to defend France." For the time being at least, the French public seemed more concerned with the battle between the bishop and the admiral than with the contaminated winds sweeping...
...Balenciaga-trained Ramon Esparza-ironically fell flat. Though WWD Publisher John Fairchild found the collection "young and different," it was all but hooted out of Paris by local authorities. "An incredible pell-mell of belted raglans, monkey-trimmed redingotes, hippy waistcoats, red rainproofs and dollie-see-through dresses," Le Figaro concluded unbelievingly. "They look like bad copies of good originals...
...twelve weeks this season, he devoted ten weeks to the Orchestre de Paris (he also serves as its music director). A month ago, at the 700-seat Opéra Louis XV at the Versailles Palace, he led an exquisitely wrought performance of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro by the Paris Opéra (he serves as that company's music adviser). In London, which he calls home these days, Solti regularly guest-conducts the London Philharmonic for a month each year...
...much of the next decade, he worked in the opera house doing "all the dirty jobs," coaching singers, positioning scenery, accompanying the nonorchestral stage rehearsals. Solti got his first big break in Budapest on March 11, 1938, when he was allowed to conduct Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. The first act went well, Solti recalls, but with the start of the second act, the singers started making mistakes while the audience grew raucously restless. To his relief Solti later learned that his conducting was not the cause: word had reached the audience that Hitler...
...director of the Munich State Opera. Though his experience was practically nonexistent for such a position, there were few other conductors around who could pass the Allies' denazification screening. As head of a major European opera house. Solti had exactly one work in his conducting repertory -the 1938 Figaro. No one in Munich knew that except Solti and. as he recalls now, "I took great care to conceal my rather limited repertory. It was not for several years that Munich began to discover that I was conducting everything for the first time...