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Other operas follow through the remainder of this week and next, the final performance being given on April 10. Few seats are available for any opera except "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" which is being given on Thursday afternoon, April...
...direct the U. S. premiere of his Capon-sacchi. Another U. S. premiere was to be Cimarosa's more-than-a-century-old Secret Marriage. Both operas are to be sung in English. Manager Johnson also plans revivals of such operas as Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, Wagner's Flying Dutchman, Saint-Saens's Samson et Dalila, Smetana's Bartered Bride (held over from last spring), Rimsky-Korsakov's Le Coq d'Or (for which Lily Pons spent this summer learning how to dance & kick), Mozart's Don Giovanni, Bellini...
...riding crop, likes to be called the "Bloody Tsar of Nürnberg," and lards his anti-Jew harangues with so much sexual obscenity that they can be printed in full only in his own Der Strümer. Last week a naturalized U. S. citizen named Ludwig Hoffmann was in a Nürnberg jail for having had the audacity to describe Nürnberg's Boss Streicher as a Lump at a Nürnberg beer festival. Citizen Hoffmann, who lives in Chicago and went back to his German birthplace only to show off his Danish wife...
...comfortable"), flew on to San Francisco to sing in Martha and La Boheme. The Metropolitan intends to boost her again this winter. There will be no more Pasha's Garden. Handsome Helen Jepson will have a chance presumably in Martha, La Boheme, Faust, Pagliacci, Tales of Hoffmann...
With the first concert scheduled on November 14 in Sanders Theatre, the Commonwealth Symphony Orchestra will include in its program Minuets of Beethoven, and selections by Hayden, and Saint Saens. Ernst Hoffmann will direct the first concert and the one following on November...