Word: gluck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dates back to the reign of music-loving Emperor Leopold I, who in 1659 tried to distract his subjects from problems of the plague and the Counter-Reformation by staging Italian opera at his court. The royal theatricals became a showcase for the works of such musical immortals as Gluck, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert. Toward the end of the 19th century, Composer-Conductor Gustav Mahler ushered in another Golden Age of Viennese opera by stressing dramatic stagecraft as well as musical excellence in his productions. The years that followed were a time of great names (Enrico Caruso, Maria Jeritza...
...Milan's La Scala are at least as high. More exciting days, though, may be ahead. Next year Bernstein and the Viennese stage director Otto Schenk will collaborate on a new production of Fidelio. Also scheduled are expensively mounted revivals of Verdi's Macbeth, Gluck's Iphigénie and such relatively little-known works as Smetana's Dalibor and Gottfried von Einem's Der Prozess...
...show, for example, Rowan reported this bulletin of the future: "Vatican, 1988. The church today finally approved the use of the Pill. The announcement was made by Pope Le Roy . . . Junior. His father was not available for comment. His mother, the former Sister Mary Catherine reached at Gluck's Hillside in the Catskills, would only say, 'We like to think of the Pill as St. Joseph Aspirin For Children...
MUNICH (June 22 to Aug. 10) is one continuous Fest, starting with Karl Richter's Bach Festival (June 22-30) through chamber music at Nymphenburg Palace (July 6-25) to the Bayerische Staatsoper's ambitious selection of operas ranging from Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice to Berg's Lulu, via a sprinkling of operas by Munich's own Richard Strauss (July...
Brave Popularizers. Rousseau apart, the brio of the age sings through its people-Gluck and Burke, Goethe and Charles III, Sheridan and Mirabeau, Marie Antoinette and Catherine the Great-who occupies a chapter of special delight. The volume is scattershot with fascinating and sometimes trivial notes: Mozart early in his career used to send obscene letters to relatives; in 18th century London, privies were called Jerichos; Boswell went to bed with Rousseau's wife precisely 13 times. The Durants can scarcely resist an anecdote or an aphorism. The borrowed ones are usually the best, as for instance Diderot...