Word: merola
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...born Adler traipsed across Europe until 1938, learning opera while lending his hand to such diversions as an Austrian production of Abie's Irish Rose. Then he came to the U.S. and, in 1942, signed on as San Francisco's chorus director. When Founder and Director Gaetano Merola died in 1953, Adler took over...
...datorium. Some vestiges of Merola's Neapolitan hand still persist in the company's top-heavy Italian repertoire. Last week, Adler opened the new season with a week of pure paesani, starting with Aïda - as the company has done so often that a local critic named the War Memorial Opera House the Aïdatorium. But the new season also includes Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites, Strauss's Capriccio, Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades - all operas the Met audience will...