Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Berlin in the '20s was perhaps the gayest capital in the world, and Paul Tillich was no stranger to night life. During one of the art students' fancy-dress balls, at which he turned up in a cutaway and turban, he met a handsome girl in long green silk stockings, named Hannah Werner. As Tillich put it recently: "Things went on from there...
Manhattan's Victorian, red-and-gilt Metropolitan Opera House was transformed one night last week into a nightmarish, shriekingly demented world of sight and sound. The occasion: the Met's long overdue production of Wozzeck, by the late, famed atonalist, Alban Berg. It was one of the great nights in Met history...
...chner (1813-37), Wozzeck created a sensation when first performed in Berlin in 1925, was almost immediately recognized by European critics as one of the century's operatic masterpieces. But the fear that American audiences were not ready for Wozzeck's cerebral, atonal music long discouraged the Met from attempting...
Blood-Red Moon. The Met's production of Wozzeck does full justice to its dramatic power. The sets by Germany's Caspar Neher are starkly effective: a phosphorescently glowing landscape dominated by a blood-red moon and lumpish, Van Gogh-like stumps of trees; a solidly bourgeois German hill town, contrasting with the madness unfolding before it. Hero of the evening: Conductor Karl Boehm, who, after an unprecedented 24 rehearsals, led his huge orchestra through Berg's convoluted score with masterful clarity and passion...
...Minneapolis dentist, Cornell MacNeil took occasional voice lessons as a boy, later went to trade school and took a wartime job as turret-lathe operator. When he was working around New York, he tried out for roles in a few musicals, met his wife when he was singing in a stock-company production of The Student Prince: "We were sitting on a wardrobe trunk, and it became plain that it would be easier to lean on each other than sit up straight. This led, eventually, to five kids...