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This small, jolly opera might well get lost in the majestic spaces of the Met. But Viennese-born Stage Director Herbert Graf and Rumanian Scene Designer Jonel Jorgulesco, besides framing the production with its own curtain, brought the four brightly-colored sets as far down stage as possible. Ladislas Czettel designed gay costumes to match Lily Pons's, which was run up by famed, high-priced Dressmaker Valentina. To the military in the original libretto Director Graf added 24 high-stepping vivandieres, explaining: "You cannot think of a regiment with Lily Pons in it without having more female soldiers...
...orchestra under Conductor Artur Bodanzky gave one of the best performances that has come from the Metropolitan pit in many a season. The strings were smooth and eloquent. The horns indulged in none of the oldtime bleating. For Die Walküre there were new stage settings by Jonel Jorgulesco, who was more concerned with achieving mass effects than with following Wagner's specific instructions. Friedrich Schorr, as Wotan, wore a scarlet cloak which looked more like a Japanese kimono than a godly robe. One of the lively Valkyries was Charlotte Symons, a debutante from Chicago. Heroine...
Baritone Lawrence Tibbett appeared as Tenor Crook's persuasive, grey-haired father, contributed the best singing of the evening. The American Ballet furnished sprightly dancers for the lavish ballroom scenes. There were fresh new settings by Designer Jonel Jorgulesco. And a young U. S. singer, plump, dark-haired Thelma Votipka, sang confidently but had little chance to prove herself...
...setting chosen should have offered Jorgulesco more inspiration than he seems to have derived, for the primary colors of a North African colonial scene are made to his lavish hand. But it is to be remarked that he seems to lack a flair for portraying the exoticism of the unconventional scene with that same facility which he shows in destroying the conventionality of the conventional...
Lightng will be under the management of Jonel Jorgulesco, who will also have charge of scenic effects and costume designing. Mr. Jorgulesco has been studying in Germany under Sievert and Reinbardt. Diction, phonetics and special training in Shakespeare will be in the care of Misses Lenore Chippendale and Agnes Elliott Scott. Miss Lilla Wyman will give instruction in ballet and pantomime, and Eric Kalphurst in sight-reading and make-up. Mr. Will Ghere is to be dean of the play-producing department...
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