Word: opera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That night in Naples' famed old San Carlo Opera, now brilliantly refurbished, Der Fuhrer, Il Re and Il Duce sat through the extremely loud Aïda, which is all about the daughter of a King of Ethiopia...
Over 400 planes joined in mass aerobatics, and next it was time for II Duce to set anti-tank guns popping with incendiary bullets which set fire to their targets. The latest Italian artillery then went into action, followed at Rome that evening by a gala Royal Opera performance of musical Adolf's favorite Lohengrin. Next morning Premier Mussolini drove unobtrusively to the railway station, popped in by a side door, while His Majesty the King-Emperor arrived in his victoria with departing Guest Hitler. Il Duce. after seeing the Führer into his private train, dashed ahead...
Last week fashionable Londoners gathered at their Royal Opera House to witness the most pretentious annual event of London's musical life: the opening of the spring opera season (seven weeks) at Covent Garden. As in past seasons, the roster of singers included several names familiar to audiences at Manhattan's Metropolitan, among them Lotte Lehmann, Kerstin Thorborg and Lauritz Melchior. Season's repertory, as at the Metropolitan, showed a distinct accent on German opera, with two complete cycles of Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen as its main feature. Whipping performances into shape were a staff...
When a Londoner hears the words "Covent Garden" he thinks of 1) vegetables, 2) opera. For Great Britain's largest garden-produce market and Great Britain's Royal Opera House lie within a stone's throw of each other on the fringe of London's fashionable West End. And both institutions have the same name. Historically, the vegetables got there first, for the name Covent Garden derives from an old convent garden which occupied the site in the days of many-wived King Henry VIII. Centuries later, in 1732, one John Rich built a theatre where...
Composer George Frederic Handel gave the first performance of his Messiah, most popular oratorio of all time. The present opera house dates from...