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Denver, Colo., Red Rocks Music Festival: The Girl of the Golden West, with Eleanor Steber. At the City Auditorium: West Side Story, with the original cast. At the Central City Opera Festival: Die Fledermaus alternates with The Ballad of Baby...
...stereo) the frustrated conductor gets some bandshell marshmallows-Richard Rodgers' Victory at Sea, Khachaturian's Sabre Dance, Fantasia on "Greensleeves"-preconducted for him by Arthur Fiedler, Morton Gould, Robert Russell Bennett. (Any armchair connoisseur of the Viennese repertory will find Conductor Fiedler's tempi in the Fledermaus waltzes aggravatingly slow, but Gould's version of Mexican Hat Dance is so inspiring that it may result in dislocated shoulders...
...Strauss, J.: Die Fledermaus Overture (ML); J.S.: Sonata #3 in E Major for Harpsichord and Violin (ML); Schubert: Symphony #8 in B. minor (D); Beethoven: Quartet #2 in G Major (ML); Shostakovitch: Concerto for Piano...
Strauss' Die Fledermaus has been selected as the major fall production of the Harvard Opera Guild, production manager William A. Storrer '59 disclosed last night. The Guild will also institute a series of opera "workshops" to provide experience for College students in the techniques of opera presentation and to make rarely-performed roles available for students...
...richole, never before done at the Met and rarely seen in the U.S. anywhere, replaced Die Fledermaus as the Met's showpiece operetta and special New Year's Eve attraction. The score is second-rate Offenbach, first performed in 1868, well after the glories of La Belle Helens (1864) and Orpheus (1858); but it is still the work of a master in his field. The libretto is by two hacks of genius, Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, who vaguely based it (as they did their celebrated book for Carmen) on a work by Prosper...