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When Soprano Lotte Lehmann, hired for a selected group of Schubert Lieder, complained that the management had refused to sell extra seats on the stage, and that she felt lonely without a stageful of her devoted admirers, Impresario Monath fixed her with a steely stare. "Mme. Lehmann," said she coldly, "you are not alone on the stage. Franz Schubert is with...
...only woman opera impresario in the world last week launched the freshest, most bumptious U.S. opera troupe on its second Manhattan season. The impresario is Hungarian-born Yolanda Mero-lrion of the youthful New Opera Company. For openers, Impresario Irion chose The Opera Cloak, Walter Damrosch's latest one-acter, and The Fair at Sorochinsk, a rollicking opus by Russia's rum-nosed Immortal, Modeste Moussorgsky. Eighty-year-old Composer Damrosch conducted his curtain raiser without drowning out the audience's spirited conversation. But for The Fair at Sorochinsk, they sat up, shut up and pounded their...
Dynamo that turns this enthusiasm into operatic production is intense, thickset, greying Yolanda Mero-lrion, wife of Hermann Irion, a Steinway Piano Co. executive, now a Washington dollar-a-year man. Impresario Irion first came to the U.S. in 1909 as a well-known concert pianist. After touring the world on a piano stool for 20 years, she settled down on her husband's estate in Rockland County, N.Y. During the depression Yolanda Irion discovered that 60% of unemployed musicians were singers. With wealthy Socialite Mrs. Lytle Hull, Mrs. Irion outlined a plan which would 1) put singers...
...interest. Yolanda Mero-lrion takes personal credit or blame for every move her 100 singers. 90 musicians and 20-odd conductors and technical executives make. Says she, in her Magyar-tinged English: "Only one cook can spoil this broth. I have to do everything myself." So far, critics agree, Impresario Irion has spoiled nothing...
...works her shapely legs off rehearsing, washes her own tights, spends her time on the sidelines cheering on the other members of the troupe. To Ballet Boss Hurok, who has managed everything from a peddler's pushcart to Isadora Duncan, Angel Chase is the answer to an impresario's dream-art's ardent athlete, a check's most beautiful signature. Says Sol of their joint enterprise: "The Ballet Theatre combines financial respectability with artistical principle...