Word: opera
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Quasimodo probably had it. Digger Barnes of the television soap opera Dallas has developed the symptoms. In real life the most famous victim was John Merrick, the grotesquely deformed "Elephant Man," who became a sought-after celebrity in Victorian England...
...State Opera brings a treasured legacy...
...word for it is Gesamtgastspiel, which, roughly translated, means everybody gets in on the act. And indeed, as the Vienna State Opera unpacked in Washington for its first U.S. visit, everybody-and everything-seemed to have come along. Thirty-seven soloists and 100 chorus members? Check. An orchestra of 95, with all their instruments? Check. Thirty-five stagehands and five staff workers, plus 23 custom-built 40-ft. containers full of scenery and costumes? Check...
...Mozart himself conducting from the keyboard. There was Beethoven's Fidelio, also first produced in Vienna with the composer presiding, in 1805. From the 20th century there were Salome and Ariadne auf Naxos, the latter premiered in Vienna in 1916 and both composed by one of the State Opera's long line of distinguished directors, Richard Strauss...
...wrote Major Barbara with her in mind. After a 1910 farewell bow before weeping fans, Robson married August Belmont, banker, racing-stable owner, and a multimillionaire nearly twice her age. Thus began a new role as society grande dame and philanthropist. Closest to her heart was the Metropolitan Opera, which she rescued in the lean 1930s by forming the fund-raising Met Opera Guild...