Word: opera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Frederick Louis Maytag still is green. Newton's 11,500 residents get their water from a Maytag-built system, their electricity from a plant which he established. They play in a $450,000 Maytag park, have a $1,000,000, air-cooled Maytag hotel, office and opera building. Their sick are tended in a $200,000 hospital which he sponsored. Their children may attend three Iowa colleges which he aided financially. Newtonites who on Frederick Louis Maytag's 75th birthday in 1932 were working for The Maytag Co. shared a $153,000 gift from him. After...
Sensitive operagoers, who like to look as well as listen, have long bewailed opera's dramatic knocks and squeaks. Now and then zealous directors, and intrepid groups of operatic artists, have decided to do something about them. Most prominent of these groups in recent seasons have been England's Glyndebourne Opera, and the Salzburg Opera Guild...
During the winter opera season, Manhattan's Metropolitan, like most large opera houses, presents six or seven operas a week. Such a pace would probably be impossible to keep up in any other branch of the present-day theatre. But a well-trained operatic cast can put an opera through its tricks with very little rehearsal, often manages to do so with none at all. Schooled in a standard series of movements and gestures for each role, a good average opera singer can be fitted into a production at a moment's notice, like a spare part...
...estate, "Dunrovin," wealthy Manhattan Attorney William Matheus Sullivan, long an admirer of England's Glyndebourne Festival, recently inaugurated the Dunrovin Festival which he hoped would develop along similar lines. Held in a remodeled coach house, the first Dunrovin Festival was a modest beginning. Only one session of opera was held, and that consisted merely of isolated scenes from three Mozart operas. But last week a capacity audience of some 350 agreed that Dunrovin's preliminary samples of custom-made opera were impressive...
...symphony orchestra, shaped each musical phrase and each dramatic moment to fit, coordinated the action of the characters down to the 'slightest detail. By performance time they had done some 200 hours of solo, group and general rehearsing, far more than the most lavishly financed large-scale opera house could have afforded for a standard production...