Word: opera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Musician-Prince Frederik gave way to an old passion, strode to the stage of Copenhagen's Royal Opera House during a rehearsal, conducted the orchestra through the last movement of Tchaikovsky's Pathétique Symphony and the Overture to Wagner's Meistersinger...
...Frank Harding published a Cake Walk version of I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls, from Balfe's opera, The Bohemian Girl. The skies did not fall, but ever since then it has been good publicity: 1) to jazz a well-known classic or dead-serious folksong, 2) to goad a few naive busybodies into protest, 3) to pretend that the incident is splitting the world of music into two opposing camps of foamy-lipped zealots...
...eleven, he earned his own living playing in dance bands, cafés and cinema orchestras. A diligent student, he spent his spare time plowing through courses at the Frankfurt Conservatory, studying violin, viola and composition. In 1915 he became head violinist of the Frankfurt Opera House, rose to the post of conductor. Among German composers his pre-Hitler reputation was second only to that of aging Richard Strauss...
...weeks from tonight the curtain will go up on the Metropolitan's premiere performance in the 1938 Boston season. And it is with a shout of joy that many of us will greet that opening opera, Verdi's "Otello." For rare indeed are the opportunities of American audiences to hear this masterpiece of the Italian composer's prime...
...comment need be made on a work which Rossini considered representative of "the perfect balance between science and genius," and so we pass over "Don Giovanni" to consider "Der Rosenkavalier." This opera combines expertly three phases of Strauss's genius, his dramatic flare in the overture, many a charming Vicnneso waltz and pure Mozart-like melodies. The trio for female voices, which foreshadows the duet for soprano and alto in "Arabella," has been ranked with the famous quintet from Wagner's "Dic Meistersinger." And the entrance of the Rosenkavalier in the second act, clad all in white...