Word: halasz
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...handle the musical end, Mayor LaGuardia imported a fiery Hungarian-born conductor named Laszlo Halasz, from the St. Louis Grand Opera. Halasz brought some St. Louis scenery, auditioned hun dreds of singers, rehearsed like mad for twelve weeks...
...Halasz's audiences talked through his overtures and drowned his finales with spontaneous applause. In the last act of Tosca the guns of the firing squad failed to go off, and the hero was obliged to drop dead in silence. In Carmen a soldier tried desperately to get his sabre into his scabbard the wrong...
...most of Halasz's singers sang well and some of them very well. Its rows packed with enthusiasts including Du-binsky's garment workers and Curran's seamen, the City Center bulged with sold-out houses. But by week's end Mayor LaGuardia's marked-down opera found itself in a situation familiar to its high-priced rival, the Met: it had lost substantially at the box office...