Word: manon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Clemens Kraus, it provided a unique climate for performance, fusing Italian fire, Teutonic thunder and Slavic melancholy into a mellowness all its own. For years, Vienna considered itself Richard Wagner's second Bayreuth; it took Bizet's Carmen and Massenet's Manon to its heart after Paris had cold-shouldered them...
...received. "I don't think the Brattle managers handled their publicity correctly," Benjamin Sack, owner of the Beacon Hill Theatre, explained. "I think Miss Julie deserved a longer showing." He himself proceeded to sign a contract with Times Films to exhibit The Game of Love, One Summer of Happiness, Manon, Le Plaisir, and Gigi--all of which are noted for their censorable subject matter...
Pierre Monteux, 79, French-born conductor, shuttled from the Metropolitan Opera, where he led mellow performances of Faust (and will lead Manon and Orfeo this week), to Carnegie Hall and the Brooklyn Academy of Music for three well-played sessions with the Boston Symphony...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Massenet's Manon, with De Los Angeles, Valletti, Corena, Hines...
...opera, a sunny revival of Cherubim's The Portuguese Inn, the San Francisco Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein called her "the very incarnation of youthful feminine grace and vivacity." Even before she had appeared in her other roles (in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, Massenet's Manon), the San Francisco Opera decided to invite her back next season...