Word: offenbach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...festival tested musical fortitude as well as memories. For performances of Offenbach's ballet Le Papillon, which has never been given outside the Paris Opèra, Butler teachers and students spent hours reconstructing the orchestral parts from a copy of the original conductor's score. "I'm going to die," exclaimed Indianapolis Symphony Conductor Izler Solomon in mock horror when he was handed the 435 pages of Paderewski's Symphony in B Minor, which took nearly seven years to compose. Solomon cut the thunderous, brass-filled nationalistic epic to a manageable 33 minutes and turned...
Today is the last day to sign up for the Summer School Tour of Cape Cod and Vicinity, including guided tour of of historic Plymouth, Mayflower II, Plimouth Plantation plus Falmouth, swimming at Hyannis Port, dinner at the Yachtsman, concluding with the performance of J. Offenbach's La Perichole by the Oberelin College Gilbert and Sullivan Players on Saturday. Tickets and details at 4 Matthews Hall. $13 per person...
...MARK OFFENBACH Honolulu...
...Lawrence Kelly, borrowed for the occasion from the Dallas Opera, billed his "Nineteenth Century Affair" as an attempt to capture the "gaiety and spirit of the romantic era." Nowhere did it succeed more effervescently than in the centerpiece of the week-long festival: a polished, witty production of Jacques Offenbach's 1858 operetta, Orpheus in the Underworld...
Fine Froth. Offenbach, a dapper dynamo with a prolific melodic gift and a boffo theatrical sense, made the French comic opera of his time into the granddaddy of today's musical comedy. In Orpheus, his first big success, he took what were then scandalous liberties with the Greek legend in order to parody Gluck's opera Orfeo et Euridice, to spoof solemn antiquity worship, and to satirize the manners and morals of the Second Empire under Napoleon III. His fiddle-playing Orpheus is glad to be rid of the unfaithful Eurydice until a character called Public Opinion forces...