Word: opera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of reports to the contrary, there was still young life in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera...
...opera, slated for performance in the Lowell dining hall on March 16 and 17, has a cast of 35 persons, in addition to a 20-piece orchestra under the direction of Malcolm H. Holmes...
...Society is attempting to produce Handel's opera with costumes modeled on those used in the work's 1720 premiere in England. Director John Mathis '50 is doing research for the costuming in Houghton Library...
Pianist Gieseking was one of the last men in the world who could speak with certainty on U.S. attitudes. Where politics and art conflicted, the U.S. had not always been sure itself. During World War I, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera (and scores of other U.S. concert halls) had stopped presenting the music of Wagner-only to feel shamefaced about it afterward. In World War II, the Met kept right on with Wagner, but did not present Madame Butterfly, because of the opera's cozy attitude toward the Japanese; it was quietly restored to the repertory five months after...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore...