Word: ivantzoff
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...stars and sultry violet, Miss Darbo gained full credit for the force and fury of her acting, but New Yorkers were not impressed with her wiry, imperfect voice, scarcely at its best in the open air. They thought her dance of the Seven Veils more realistic than graceful. Ivan Ivantzoff was more secure as cowardly King Herod. Conductor Alexander Smallens made the score taut and exciting, shared honors with Stage Director Ernst Lert who has produced creditable Salomes at Freiburg, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Basle, Milan. Manhattan applauded the ingenuity with which Lert changed the Stadium platform into an Oriental terrace...
Composer Berg's music was perplexing at first. It had all the dissonances to be expected of a pupil of modernistic Arnold Schönberg. There were no conventional harmonies, no set songs. Baritone Ivan Ivantzoff (Wozzeck) sometimes spoke, sometimes sang his lines. Soprano Anne Roselle (Marie, Wozzeck's mistress) had music so hideously difficult that it defied full, smooth tones. Robert Edmond Jones's simple, color-splashed sets had more general appeal: a ghoulish eye set in a screen for the doctor's examining office; the elongated shadow of a stack of guns for the soldier's barracks; a festoon...
...little more than 15 minutes to perform. Its subject is a simple one: a man in the pursuit of happiness is constantly thwarted by fate in the person of an elusive woman. Schönberg created only one singing character-the Man, harrowingly played last week by Baritone Ivan Ivantzoff. The woman and the handsome stranger who taunt him were mimes. For the rest there was a chorus (17 artist-students from the Curtis Institute of Music) which chanted and wailed in Greek fashion. And important as either principals or chorus were lights. For Arnold Schönberg, being...
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