Word: giordano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Toscanini conducts an all-Italian program (Giordano, Busoni, Respighi...
...begun, as a matter of fact, on a sour note. Critics agreed that the opening production of Carmen, with Mezzo-Soprano Gladys Swarthout and Tenor Ramon Vinay, was an unduly damp and dismal affair, even though it rained that night. But the second night's show was Giordano's Andrea Chenier, which had not had a major U.S. production for 16 years, and it was something to talk about...
First-night attendance at Giordano's little-known work was small: the company lost $5,000 on the performance. But thanks to Cincinnati's loyal music lovers, the "Zoopera" could afford such losses. Last winter, after the opera had accumulated a deficit of some $44,000, Cincinnatians subscribed to a whopping Fine Arts Fund to support the summer series along with the Cincinnati Symphony, the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Taft Museum. The opera...
Died. Umberto Giordano, 81, Italian composer who scored a one-shot success at 28 with his melodramatic opera of the French Revolution, Andrea Chenier; of a heart ailment; in Milan, Italy. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Fascist revolution, in 1932, Mussolini ordered him to compose a special tune...
...success in Opera Seria (in which, incidentally, the English translation went much better than it did in their recent Opera Buffa success, "Figaro") they might try next "La Clemenza di Tito," another Mozart work in the form and the last opera he wrote. Perhaps they might experiment with Berlioz, Giordano's "Andrea Chenier," or something very recent. If they go about their work as thoroughly and sincerely as they did for "Idomeneo," they can't miss with whatever they choose...