Word: opera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert L. Moore, Jr. '49, newly-appointed Harvard representative on the College Opera Council, announced last night a drive to stir up University interest in opera...
...Council, a new branch of the nonprofit New England Opera Theatre, will hand out cut-rate tickets to the Theatre's operas and sponsor free "piano lectures" by Boris Goldovsky who has sparked the movement...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Die Walküre, with Helen Traubel, Max Lorenz and Rose Bampton...
...Kate, Porter's score blends several styles to harmonize with a play-within-a-play about a production of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. He has ranged from comic ditties and Broadway torch ballads to songs in the rich, tuneful manner of Italian light opera, to match the Paduan setting of The Shrew. Several take their titles, and the flavor of their lyrical development, from the play's Elizabethan verse. The New York Times's Brooks Atkinson solemnly declared that I Hate Men is "the perfect musical sublimation of Shakespeare's evil-tempered...
...meanness with a compassionate picture of her miserable marriage. Besides endowing his work with warmth and humanity, Director Gilliat knows how to make it move; the hero's hunt through London for his wife is a series of hairbreadth misses, played at the galloping pace of a horse opera...