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...three major repertory opera theaters (the Metropolitan. Chicago and San Francisco operas). West Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland, on the other hand, have about 60 thoroughly professional opera companies, most of them small houses that the musical tourist rarely hears of: Flensburg, Krefeld, Oldenburg. Hof, Saarbrucken, Augsburg. Kassel, Koblenz, Oberhausen, Bielefeld. There are some 150 U.S. singers in German-speaking houses today, constituting about 20% of the soloists. California-born Soprano Mary Gray, 29, recalls a Traviata in Karlsruhe last season: "The three leads came out for the curtain calls, and I looked around and thought, 'My gosh...
...trained and ready for service within 48 hours. Of these, fewer than half will join NATO forces under latest reduced targets; all the rest will belong to Von Horn's Territorial Defense Command. A 4,000-man nucleus has already been assembled in the last two months around Koblenz and Cologne...
...fact that Germany was partly to blame for the unhappy development." Among responsible West Germans, the most widespread reaction was the realization that all of the Allies were responsible for 1) the partition of Germany, and 2) the opening of Europe to Communist invasion. Said the Rhein-Zeitung of Koblenz: "Yalta was Stalin's great victory over the freedom of the world. The West itself held his stirrups...
...Koblenz keeps it largely a home-town production. The local Rhine Philharmonic, a 40-piece orchestra, is the musical backbone of the performance. Koblenz' young singers and budding ballerinas make up the cast of 200, and 40 strapping youngsters, male & female, of the Poseidon Swimming Club perform in the aquacade act. For the top roles, some talent had to be imported. Of one guest performer, a Koblenz official proudly reported: "Oh, he's first class. He sometimes even sings on the radio...
...show has been selling out every night. The attitude of the Koblenz city fathers: let Edinburgh, Salzburg and Bayreuth have the heavy stuff. At the present rate, the City of the Operetta Festival can expect 100,000 customers by the end of summer...