Word: offenbach
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Among other numbers on the program are two songs from "Apollonian Harmony" and two choruses from Offenbach's "La Belle Helen...
...chance to sing Pélleas in the New York City Opera's closing performance last year. Ace French Repertory Conductor Jean Morel liked Rounseville's big, wide-ranging tenor voice, taught him to sing Hoffmann this season in the City Opera's first production of Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann...
...Opera (Sun. 7 p.m., Mutual). All-French program, in honor of Bastille Day. Arias from Meyerbeer's L'Africaine, Massenet's Manon, Bizet's The Pearl Fishers, Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, Gounod's Faust...
...wharves, invented a marshmallow syrup, made enough to buy the factory. Last year he had saved up enough money to hire 75 members of the famed Philadelphia Orchestra in their off hours. On the top floor of his factory, he rehearsed them in musical bonbons by Johann Strauss and Offenbach, and piped both the sweet and sour notes to the candy kitchens below. Then he took his Pops Orchestra on a tour of Army & Navy hospitals, paying out $1,200 for each concert...
Felix Mendelssohn, the Nazi's No. 1 musical scapegoat, was back in open favor in Germany. In Munich his music led the program of the first symphony concert played in U.S.-occupied Germany. BBC reported meantime that records of both Mendelssohn and Offenbach (also blacklisted) had been found at Hitler's Berchtesgaden hideaway...