Word: nemirovitch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a setting which represented plastically, with various unexpected levels and slopes, a Spanish interior the like of which has yet to be seen in Spain, the Nemirovitch-Dantchenko Moscow opera troupe (TIME, Jan. 11) presented last week their version of Mérimée's Carmen with a totally new Russian libretto and a totally new arrangement of the Bizet score...
...again evident that M. Nemirovitch-Dantchenko's "singing actors" act much better than they sing. From a purely auditory viewpoint the performance was scarcely more than worth attending. The eye, however, was caught, held and delighted by the perfect ensemble pantomime of the chorus, which lolled and sat about at various levels throughout most of the production, and provided a sort of "visual accompaniment" to the action which centred about the main characters...
...past month the famed showman, Morris Gest, has been endeavoring to convince Manhattanites that the Moscow Art Theatre Musical Studio of M. Vladimir Nemirovitch-Dantchenko (cofounder of the Moscow Art Theatre with Stanislavsky) represents the ultimate and perfect synthesis of the dramatic, lyric, pantomimic and scenic arts...
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