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...Louis HALASZ Salzburg, Austria
...York City Opera's smart Director Laszlo Halasz was feeling pretty pleased with the repertory of his crack little company. Mozart was well taken care of, with bright, fast-paced productions of The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni. So were the French, with Carmen and Faust, and the Italians, with Aida, La Boheme, Tosca, La Traviata. There was only one cloud in an otherwise sunny sky, but that one was a thunderhead: Wagner. Last week, with the help of an old Wagnerian, Halasz dissipated...
...help came from 62-year-old Hungarian-born Baritone Friedrich Schorr, once the famed Wotan and Hans Sachs of the Metropolitan Opera. Ever since he retired from the Met in 1943, Schorr had been itching to "start a Wagnerian tradition right here." When Halasz gave him the chance last July to go to work on Die Meistersinger, Schorr jumped at it. He had to start from scratch with the almost all-American cast, but that was exactly what he wanted...
...first New York performance of Turandot in 20 years, City Opera's Director Laszlo Halasz had reached all the way into Yugoslavia to find a soprano, the Zagreb Opera's buxom, dark-haired Dragica Martinis, 29, who could, and would, sing the cold, high-ranging and ungrateful title role...
...York City Opera's opera-thirsty little Director Laszlo Halasz decided last year to give the Three Oranges a squeeze. He fixed one flaw right away by having the libretto translated from French into English. New sets, a bright young cast, some comical choreography by Charles Weidman, and some overall Halasz humor fixed the rest. The first production last year was a hit. Halasz quickly scheduled five more sellout performances. Next to Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro, Three Oranges became City Opera's biggest hit-big enough for Halasz to open his spring...