Word: opera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's Town Hall a few blocks from the Lombardos (see above), an older and more fabled musician was celebrating too. For 74-year-old Léon Rothier, whose bass had boomed through three decades at the Metropolitan Opera, it was just 50 years since his debut at Paris' Comedie Française...
...disgrace. Exile Blackmer stayed at his chateau in France. Even World War II caused him little inconvenience. He was technically a fugitive from justice and had no passport, but when France fell to the Nazis the Swiss welcomed him, his money and his third wife "Kaja," a buxom Norwegian opera singer...
...wintry January afternoon in 1916, the Metropolitan Opera's Enrico Caruso, Frances Alda, Antonio Scotti and Andres de Segurola bundled into a train for one of their weekly performances in Philadelphia. For the top performers in the Met's golden age it was a routine trip, but one they always made the most of. This time, the party sipped champagne...
Gilbert & Sullivan: Pirates of Penzance, Trial by Jury (D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, New Promenade Orchestra, Isadore Godfrey conducting; London FFRR, 4 sides and 2 sides respectively, LP). The first two in the Gilbert & Sullivan series which London Gramophone plans to bring out, performed by the past masters of the art. Performance and recording: excellent...
...some of the balletomanes who packed Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week for the opening of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, the wiry, sandy-haired little conductor who took the podium for the second ballet looked vaguely familiar. When he began to conduct, it was with some of the flapping firebird motions of Igor Stravinsky. But it was not Igor. It was his son, Soulima Stravinsky (TIME, July 26, 1948), who was making his U.S. debut as a conductor and composer...