Word: opera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Carmen, with Risë Stevens, Nadine Conner, Kurt Baum and Robert Merrill...
...Metropolitan Opera, with the notable help of its new conductor Fritz Reiner, had made a good many of its critics eat their words with a great performance of Salome (TIME, Feb. 14). Last week, the Met and its Maestro Reiner served them another mouthful-and let a nationwide radio audience...
This time, pudgy Conductor Reiner had no sensational Salome to work with. For his second opera, the Met hauled out of storage a number that takes elbow grease and even more finesse: Verdi's last, perhaps greatest but hardly popular opera, the ephemeral, fast-moving Falstaff...
...mentioned his ballet The Legend of Joseph, which Impresario Sergei Diaghilev had first produced in Paris and London in 1914. Joseph meant something special to Max Reiter: as a young man he had played the celesta in the Berlin Opera orchestra while Strauss himself conducted it. Reiter demanded the honor of being the first to perform the new version when it was ready...
TELLS OF TRYSTS WITH OPERA TENOR FERRUCCIO TAGLIAVINI. Across the page, they found a handsome "Raffles," who had allegedly stolen $1,000,000 in furs and jewels, and kept mistresses on both coasts and "was said to resemble Ronald Colman" (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In the News, they read all about a tenacious housewife whose 2-YEAR, $7,000 HUNT FINDS LOST HUSBAND-and who obviously did not intend to let him get away again...