Word: opera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Reichstag was again called to meet in extraordinary session in Berlin's Kroll Opera House,* but it was far from a solemn occasion. The deputies were scheduled to hear Herr Hitler's reply to President Roosevelt's recent proposal of ten years of peace (see p. 11), but even before the session began the word got around that the Führer's answer would be cute. Herr Hitler himself set a tone of gaiety for the meeting when, two nights before, instead of dictating his speech to a dictaphone and two harried...
Martyn Green, of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, will give a talk at 2 o'clock In Emerson D on the subject "The Actor's Place in the Theatre." Green has played almost every role in the long list of Gilbert and Sullivan operates...
...heels of Amelia's, success, NBC officials commissioned Composer Menotti to write another opera, this time for the radio. Composer Menotti accepted the commission, but took his time about writing the opera. To the annoyance of NBC's program arrangers, it was not until last fortnight that Menotti put the finishing touches to his score. Last week the new radio opera had its world première, on the Saturday night "Toscanini Hour...
Composer Menotti is not worried about opera's future. Chief troubles with it nowadays, he feels, are that its theatres are too big, its language foreign, its settings antiquated. A simple melodist in his own music, Menotti dismisses most modernists as bad craftsmen, thinks the salvation of music lies in a return to intelligible musical language. U. S. composers, he thinks, are under an unfair handicap: "You still want foreign names; that's one thing that has been in my favor." About his operatic preoccupation with feminine foibles, 27-year-old Menotti explains: "Women, to fascinate men, must...
...Spirit" was the first definite attempt to relegate the Spanish-American War to the status of a slap-stick melodrama, and this attempt has proved quite successful. Likewise, Mr. Gregory Mason's account of the War has many more characteristics in common with the Gilbert and Sullivan type of opera than with an armed conflict. He has seconded Millis' motion on the subject by treating the 1898 embroilment as a schoolboy's scuffle. But, like many second-the-motions, "Remember the Maine" is at best only a weak reiteration of something that has been gone over before in more positive...