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...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Humperdinck's prelude to Hänsel und Gretel, Schumann's Third Symphony, Kodály's Dances of Galanta. Conductor: Fritz Reiner...
With each change of opera there was some new singer. German Baritone Eduard Habich was the tipsy, loud-mouthed father in Hänsel und Gretel. Baritone Julius Huehn from Pittsburgh made a sonorous herald for Lohengrin. Chase Baromeo of the late Chicago Civic Opera was the High Priest in Aïda. Chilean Carlo Morelli went through the customary antics as Marcello...
...Ballet worked hard, enlivened the operas in which it appeared, won praise partly because it represented such an improvement over the stodgy, lifeless dancing which went on at the Metropolitan under the Gatti-Casazza regime. The new U. S. organization gave its first substantial demonstration after the Hänsel und Gretel performance, presented comely ballerinas, several of them highly talented. Outstanding performances were given by Anatole Vilzak, once of the Russian Imperial Ballet, and young William Dollar, who has the most spectacular technique of any male dancer now appearing in public. Unfortunately the ballet was Reminiscence, which calls...
...third time this season, the Chicago Civic Opera Company gave an opera in English-Humperdinck's Hänsel and Gretel. Critics were unable to derive any new ideas about opera in English because the text was throughout the performance quite unintelligible...
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