Word: gutman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Cleveland's Musicarnival decided to do Tosca, it called on the Metropolitan Opera's Assistant Manager John Gutman to tool it up for modern tastes. Gutman, an old hand at translating and adapting opera librettos, decided to switch the locale from the Rome of 1800 to an unspecified modern Eastern European capital. Scarpia, chief of the Roman police, became a Communist cop, and his enemies, the Bonapartists, became simply freedom fighters or "subversives." All told, Gutman had to doctor only 25 lines. The underling of Act II who formerly rushed in to announce that Bonaparte...
...performances in this movie have become as classic as the story and just as susceptible to imitation--often by the same people. The late Sidney Greenstreet played Caspar Gutman ever after, and Peter Lorre has never quite gotten away from the frightened effeminate man in evening dress, cowering under Humphrey Bogart's open-handed smashes. Bogart, a fine actor in any role, sent a young generation out into the world with inscrutable smiles and tough wisecracks. The line, "If they give you twenty years, I'll wait for you; if they hang you, I'll always remember you," which Spade...
...FLORENCE GUTMAN FRAN SPALDING DOROTHY ROSENBLOOM CAMILLE TROGAN Stevens Co-operative House University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Mich...
When each had sung two numbers, Gutman retired to study cryptic marks on his score papers, then came back with his decision. It had been a "very good audition," he said. He found some language weakness: most of the German and Italian was "atrocious," but to his surprise he found the French excellent...
...Most Demanding. He noted one failing that is so common he has an abbreviation for it. "Ltc" in Gutman's shorthand stands for "Liebestod complex," and refers to a tendency among contestants, particularly women, to choose the most demanding music. "They seem to think they haven't got a chance unless they sing something loud and dramatic," said Gutman. "These youngsters try to do things that shouldn't even be in their repertoire for another five or ten years...