Word: opera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also announced at this time was the spring concert program. Special feature will be a trip to Vassar over the weekend of March 6, to participate in a concert production of Gluck's opera, "Iphegenia auf Tauris...
Each winter thousands of sophisticated Manhattanites throng the Metropolitan Opera House to goggle at old-fashioned Norse gods and blimp-like maidens disporting themselves in animal skins and burlap. The music-dramas of Richard Wagner, with their wilful, slow-witted heroes (Siegfried, Parsifal, Lohengrin), and their clever, conniving villains (Beck-messer, Mime, Alberich), are far & away Manhattan's favorite operas...
Last week, while 14 Reichswehr generals were ousted, after protesting among other things Rosenberg's Wagnerian neo-paganism (see p. 18), Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House opened its annual Wagner cycle. Not even in Wagner-worshipping Germany will these operas (Tannhäuser, Die Meistersinger, the Ring cycle), be more reverently, painstakingly and expertly performed. But where the all-conquering Siegfried represents Der Fiihrer to every starry-eyed German backfisch, he will remain for U. S. operagoers a poetic figure of ancient and barbarous legend...
...Dance of the Seven Veils in Richard Strauss's Salome has always been the despair of opera impresarios. Problem: to find a soprano hefty enough to sing the music, loose-limbed enough to do the dance, shapely enough to weather the moderate public disrobing...
Last week 4,500 Manhattanites paid $12,000 to cram the Metropolitan Opera House while Yehudi Menuhin and his pretty 17-year-old sister Hepzibah played Beethoven's C Minor Sonata for violin and piano. Touching as a brother-sister act, the performance, on its piano side, was far from record-breaking...