Word: opera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hippodrome last week, the ancient rafters that once shook for Diver Annette Kellerman shook again with shouts of mucho and arriba, as a cosmopolitan audience, looking like a first-night opera crowd, crammed into tiers of red & gold chairs, witnessed as exciting a jai-alai program as they had ever seen in any Latin country. The program consisted of four games (three doubles and one singles), with entr'actes of Spanish fandangos to keep the spectators' minds off the absence of betting-an integral part of the game's popularity in other cities. Headliners were the "Four...
Modern Zionist dancers have long studied and imitated the traditional dances of the Yemenite Jews. Prominent among these Zionist dancers is Moscow-born Rina Nikova, former prima ballerina of Palestine's Tel Aviv Opera. While working in Palestine, Ballerina Nikova's interest in the Yemenite Jews became so absorbing that she spent months living in their villages learning their customs and dances at first hand. Upshot of her study was the formation in 1932 of a ballet troupe of seven dark-eyed, black-haired Yemenite girls. Because the girls sang as well as danced, she called her troupe...
...many-tongued Europe opera is usually sung in the language of the country where it is performed. In France Pagliacci becomes Paillasse, in Germany Bajazzo. But Americans, like Englishmen, take their opera neat, and often swallow an entire performance without understanding more than a few words...
When in 1928 Jules Falk, a Philadelphia musician, proposed a summer season of translated opera at Atlantic City's Steel Pier, the Pier's President, Frank Gravatt, was leery of it. But Director Falk went ahead with his plan, put on Pagliacci and one act of Boris Godounoff in English. The double bill, given in one of the gigantic Pier's five theatres, went over so well that opera in English became a permanent feature of Atlantic City's summer-season...
Last week the Steel Pier Opera Company, only 100% English-speaking and English-singing opera company in the U.S. closed its eleventh successful year. In more than 400 performances the company had produced 34 different operas...