Word: offenbach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Residence Theatres. Musical events in Vienna and lower Austria from June 2 to 16 include ballets and serenades by the Vienna Philharmonic under Franz Schalk and Clemens Krauss; a concert by a choir of 8,000 in front of the City Hall; operettas of Strauss, Suppé, and Offenbach; church concerts in Modling (near Vienna) featuring Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. The Salzburg Festival, August 4 to 30, calls in the assistance of the Vienna Philharmonic. Beethoven's Fidelia, Mozart's Don Giovanni and Strauss's Rosenkavalier are all listed for performances as well as orchestral...
...Budapest, for the first time in history, an opera was called off on account of rain. It was to be Offenbach's La Belle Helene at the Municipal Theatre and the fire inspector was making his round 15 minutes before curtain time. He tried this exit, examined that extinguisher. He touched a wrong lever and stage rain fell, beat upon the scenery until all was ruined, no performance possible...
...magnificently built, with sea-blue eyes and golden hair. The public raved. Composers made their music for her. She created Strauss' Ariadne, later the Empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten. She was his Salome, his Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier). He saw her in Max Reinhardt's revival of Offenbach's Belle Hélène and an idea was born. It simmered and swelled until last winter he finished for her his Helen...
...second play will be one by Sutro, called "A Marriage Has Been Arranged." In the cast there will be Fay Goell of Radcliffe and R. M. Cushing '28. The cast of the last play, "Rapunrel" by Alter Prody, will be made up of A. J. M. Abramson '29, Bertha Offenbach, and Miriam Berkman...
Ernest Bloch Offenbach...