Word: giovanni
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mozart fans who expected another Don Giovanni or Marriage of Figaro, it was a disappointment. The Abduction from the Seraglio is a trifle in which half of the dialogue is spoken, not sung. Its story (supplied by Librettist Gottlieb Stephanie, who borrowed it from a comedy by Dramatist Christoph Bretzner, who probably borrowed it from an English comic opera called The Captive) tells of an English cavalier and his manservant who try to liberate the cavalier's lady love and her maid from a Turkish pasha's harem...
...Messa." In the nearby town of Varese lived the Rev. Giovanni Battista Schreider, a serious, bald, bespectacled Baptist minister. When he heard of the state of affairs at Caravate, he put in an urgent call for his friend Angelo Messa, an elder of the Baptist Church in Milan.* Both hastened to Caravate, arrived to find a crowd milling around the main square. From a balcony above their heads Pastor Schreider blasted the papal system, offered the "true faith which does not need external manifestations to assert itself." The crowd cheered. Many said they were ready to turn Protestant...
...Opera (Sun. 7 p.m., Mutual). Anne McNight, protégée of Arturo Toscanini, and Baritone Todd Duncan sing duets from Mozart's Don Giovanni and Verdi's La Traviata...
...Stars of Salzburg's great days like Arturo Toscanini, Lotte Lehmann and Bruno Walter had refused invitations to perform. Instead the opening-night audience listened to 6 ft. 2 in. Hans Hotter, a Munich Opera baritone, sing a roughly hewn but virile hero in Mozart's Don Giovanni. The cast included a promising, pretty, 30-year-old Bulgarian soprano named Ljuba Welitsch, who was the hit of the Vienna opera season in Salome. Don Ottavio was sung by Yugoslav Tenor Anton Dermota, whose performance was uneven, but at its best better than any Don Ottavio that Manhattan...
With the help of three-inch elevated shoes, Tito Schipa looked all of five-feet-five last week at Paris' Salle Pleyel. When he sang L'Elisir d'Amore and Don Giovanni he brought the house down. He gave so many encores that for a while it seemed that only firehoses could send the cheering mobs home...