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...Metropolitan stock was not forthcoming. But financial security seemed to lie in the announcement that a two-year contract had been signed with National Broadcasting Co. Twenty-five operas sent over the air will bring in a revenue of $250,000. The first: Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel, Christmas afternoon...
Boheme with winsome Queena Mario and pompous little Gigli, Salome, Traviata, Cavalleria, Hansel und Gretel, Manon, Tannhduser, Mignon, Girl of the Golden West, Lucia ? the Los Angeles repertoire and reactions were much the same as in San Francisco. Boxofficially Soprano Maria Jeritza was greatest at traction. Gigli got the galleries. Critics were most eager to hear Clare Clairbert, new Belgian coloratura...
...climax came when his yellow-haired sister saved him with the wave of a magic juniper-branch and a hocus-pocus formula, when together they pushed the witch into the oven stoked for them. For children no moment of the performance approaches this supreme one in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel...
...such portentous events as operatic premieres. It was the them-grown-ups last week who appeared most impressed by the first U. S. performance of Maurice Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortileges (A Naughty Boy's Dream), also written for children and given on a double bill with Hansel und Gretel. They were importantly aware that Ravel is considered the foremost contemporary French composer. Some had heard him two years ago with the San Francisco Symphony, knew his suave, mocking Valse, his lovely Mother-Goose Suite, his high-powered Bolero. Prepared to be charmed, they watched the unfolding...
...went to see the opera Hansel & Gretel when this problem was still unsettled in my mind." he snapped excitedly last week. "My eye was taken by the quaint fantastic fairyland gingerbread house on the stage. The thought struck me, 'just the thing!' Something like that for the children on the old cement kiln across the courtyard from the mill. I went to see the decorator Joseph Urban who designs the stage settings for the Metropolitan Opera, and he's been hard at work on this Gingerbread House of mine for two years. It cost...