Word: figaro
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Male Lead: Frederick Brozer, as Figaro in Rossini's "Barber of Seville" (Harvard Opera Guild); Ronald Gerbrands, as Basilio in "Barber of Seville"; Harold Scott, as Jupiter in Offenbach's "Orpheus in Hades" (Lowell...
Policy of Grandeur. Raymond Aron, the Walter Lippmann of France, who writes in the conservative Figaro, has now changed his mind about continuing to be tough in Algeria, believes loss of the empire is inescapable in the near future because "in 'the long run a country cannot play a role abroad out of proportion to its means." Aron, who blames a "policy of grandeur" for France's colonial mess, advises an approach to the National Front or "at least to recognize the vocation of Algeria to independence...
Born. To Irmgard Seefried, 36, bouncy leading soprano of the Vienna State Opera, who has made four U.S. tours, stirred Metropolitan Opera audiences as Susanna in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro in 1953. and Wolfgang Schneiderhan. 38, violin virtuoso: their second daughter, second child; in Vienna. Name: Monika. Weight...
...agreed with General de Bollardière that things cannot go on as they are, all France seemed to be caught in a dialogue without decision. In the circumstances. Premier Guy Mollet's government might limp on a few months more, for lack of an alternative, but, said Figaro, "the rot is setting...
...great composers," but Da Ponte had muffed the job. In 1785 he decided to collaborate with "an almost unknown, second-rate composer" named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Joseph II was shocked by such folly, but eventually, the amiable Emperor gave his approval. The new opera was Le Nozze di Figaro. So began the greatest collaboration in operatic history. To this day, says British Biographer April FitzLyon, nobody quite knows why "the facile, mediocre poet, the very inexperienced dramatist, should be the man who, above all others, succeeded in providing Mozart with the perfect framework for his music." One possible explanation...