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...called An Fear a Phōs Balbhan (The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife), a one-act farce adapted from Rabelais by Librettist Tomás Mac Anna. In a surrealistic setting showing both the inside and outside of a peasant's cottage, the hero hires a doctor to cure his speechless wife. The doctor does this by telling her of her husband's carryings-on with other women. When she finally speaks, she does it so abusively that the hero asks to be made deaf, and the curtain falls as he peacefully sings that deafness...
...story came across clearly: poor-but-beautiful Cinderella (Frances Bible) falls in love with the prince-in-disguise (Riccardo Manning), who marries her because he knows she loves him for himself, not just for his title. Gioacchino Rossini and his librettist left out all references to fairy godmothers, pumpkins and glass slippers. But Rossini filled his work with a cloudburst of pretty tunes whose lightning changes of mood had a magical charm of their...
...undertaking My Darlin' Aida, Librettist Friedman was frankly inspired by the success of Carmen Jones. But there are great differences, not just between him and the much defter Oscar Hammerstein II, but between the parent operas themselves. Carmen has a vivid, earthy, human story; Aida's is unreal and faraway. Carmen, again, has the theater blood of the opera comique; Aida possesses both the stiffness and the elevation of truly grand opera. Where many operas-La Traviata, Tosca, La Boheme-might be at home on Broadway, not only must the story of Aida be revamped; the finer values...
...Grover Cleveland), said he thinks there is "too much flip-flop stuff going on up in Washington." ¶Four big names in he world of arts and letters announced in New York that they were switching from Eisenhower to Stevenson. The four: Producer-Playwright George Abbott, Author Edna Ferber, Librettist-Producer Oscar Hammerstein II, Producer Irene Selznick. Two big Southern newspapers announced their choice. The Atlanta Journal, the South's largest daily (which has never supported a Republican for President), came out for Stevenson. The Charlotte News, largest evening paper in the Carolinas (which supported Tom Dewey...
Before Freud, Bluebeard was a fairytale monster with a pleasantly chilling tendency toward murder. After Freud, Bluebeard's libido became a subject for reexamination. The late composer Bela Bartok and Librettist Bela Balasz were quick to see the possibilities, in 1911 put the theory into the form of a one-act opera, Bluebeard's Castle. It was staged for the first time in the U.S. last week by the New York City Opera...