Word: metropolitane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company, where three of Mozart's four later and greater operas are consistent hits, put on its first production of The Abduction. Surprisingly, it was in English translation-one of three English-language operas in the Met's repertoire this season...
Absurd as it is, the opera contains some of Mozart's most brilliant, buoyant, vocal music. But in the huge Metropolitan, the slight comedy was as close to lost as a puppet show in Madison Square Garden. One of the principals, Dezso Ernster, the Met's new basso, spoke and sang English with a Hungarian accent so thick he could not be understood. Most of the others went at Mozart's trifle like a man swinging at thistledown with a baseball bat. Somewhere along the line someone had forgotten that Mozart's little Singspiel...
...Student Council's Committee on International Relations played host to representatives from M.I.T., Northeastern, Radcliffe, Suffolk, Gordon, and Wheaton colleges, all of the metropolitan Boston area, at a joint meeting in the council Chambers...
...Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5 p.m., ABC). Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov, with Ezio Pinza, Risë Stevens, Richard Tucker...
With last night's 3 1/2 to 1 1/2 victory against the Commonwealth Chess Club in the Kirkland House dining hall, the Chess Club retained its second place position in the "B" division of the Boston Metropolitan Chess League. This was its fifth victory in the seven contests played so far this term...