Word: fledermaus
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...SHONE brightly as a National Medal of Arts honoree and elegant, tireless philanthropist. But the long career of effervescent singer-actress Kitty Carlisle Hart spanned media from film (the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera, Woody Allen's Radio Days) to stage (On Your Toes) to opera (Die Fledermaus, her 1966 debut at the Met). Hart, whose husband was playwright Moss Hart, was best known for her 1956-67 stint as a lively celebrity panelist on TV's To Tell the Truth...
...split the group resulting in Paul’s exit and the exodus of many student stalwarts,” Marshall says. “The prevailing faction, led by baritone and talented director David Hammond, proclaimed their independence by producing a non-G&S show, ‘Fledermaus,’ which was a critical success but one which alienated the bulk of the organization’s patrons.”Many of the exiled followed Paul to MIT, where, in the Spring of 1969, Marshall directed a production of Gilbert & Sullivan?...
...overture from Die Fledermaus was playing, and even though I once heard the same piece performed in the Vienna Opera House, I thought it sounded great. Amid thrashing strings, chirping flutes and thundering timpanis, I could hear coughs and rustles of a live audience, who cheered the performance at its end. It was lively for sure, and I was certainly surrounded. The problem is that you can hear the music even if you don't have the special decoder on, and it still sounds fine...
...very disciplined way," she says. "Now I can just sing." Whatever the opera's larger musical legacy, for Kirchschlager Sophie has been a transforming experience. She'll soon begin to prepare her next roles - she's back in Vienna on New Year's Eve for Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus and in January will head to Berlin, where she'll reunite with Rattle for Berlioz's Roméo et Juliette. But Sophie will stay with her. "I think my artistic life will definitely be divided," she says. "Before Sophie and After Sophie...
Madama Butterfly, Puccini 21 Don Giovanni, Mozart 16 La Boheme, Puccini 15 Rigoletto, Verdi 12 Aida, Verdi 11 La Traviata, Verdi 11 Carmen, Bizet 9 Cosi Fan Tutte, Mozart 9 Die Fledermaus, Strauss 9 Die Zauberflote, Mozart...