Word: opera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German Reichstag, its membership now swollen to 855 members by the addition of Ostmark (Austrian) and Sudeten deputies, met in Berlin's Kroll Opera House one night early this week to hear the address of Führer Adolf Hitler on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of Nazi rule. While Germans listened with pride at the recital of past Nazi victories, an anxious world combed the speech for cues as to what Nazi moves could be next expected...
Seven years ago, Beniamino Gigli, the tops in Italian tenors, left Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House in a huff over a salary cut. Deploring his attitude (his pay was rumored to be almost $3,000 a performance), the Met's managers tried many substitutes but found nobody who could fill the bill. Last week Tenor Gigli was welcomed back to the Met by a shouting throng. Critics still deplored his garlicky mannerisms and found the part of Radames in Aida unsuited to him, but had to admit that Tenor Gigli's singing was the finest Italian tenoring...
...greatest money-makers in the history of the theatre, the Gilbert & Sullivan operas today are finding new ways of striking gold. In Chicago an all-Negro Federal Theatre Mikado, set to swing, has the town by the ears. Last month Britain's G. & S. Films, Ltd. released The Mikado in Technicolor-the first full-length cinema version of a Gilbert & Sullivan opera in history...
...connoisseurs, the big current news is the latest U. S. visit of England's famed D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. The late Richard D'Oyly Carte produced most of Gilbert & Sullivan originally. His son Rupert has preserved intact, to the last gesture and grace note, the traditions of his father's productions. On three previous American tours, Rupert D'Oyly Carte gave fastidious Gilbert & Sullivan fans a glimpse of Heaven. On his fourth visit he does not let them down...
Grace Moore (Sat. 1:55 p. m. NBC-Red) in her first trills this season with the Metropolitan Opera Company. The opera : Charpentier's Louise...