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...city has been the ancient Staatsoper on Unter den Linden in the Eastern sector, and operagoing has been a mixed pleasure for people from the Western half of the city. But last week crisis-weary West Berliners finally had their way. The striking new $7,000,000 Deutsche Oper Berlin, four years in the building, was opened on the site of West Berlin's old Deutsches Opernhaus, which was gutted by Allied bombs...
...musical terms. From this generous supply every player must, of course, select his own repertory of names. A good random beginner's list might include Hector Berlioz ("EC-tor BEAR-li-oss"), Emil Waldteufel ("VAAL-toy-ful"), Kurt Weill's Die Dreigrosch-enoper ("Dee Dry-GROSH-en-oper"), Puccini's Gianni Schicchi ("Johnny SKEE-ky"), Prokofiev's ballet, Chout ("Shoo!"), Conductor Eugen Jochum ("OY-gen YOK-hum"), Pianist Jorge Bo-let ("HOAR-hay Bo-LETT"). Advanced players will discover certain unaccountable omissions: where are Monteverdi's Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda or Composers Karl Heinz Stockhausen and Max Wilhelm...
Last week two of the world's leading opera houses-East Berlin's Komische Oper and Milan's La Scala-were performing brilliant and strikingly different productions of Turandot. According to the libretto, Chinese Princess Turandot is a creature of "ice which gives fire," and the productions mirrored the icily realistic and warmly romantic visions of two master directors of opera: East Berlin's Walter Felsenstein, Vienna's Margherita Wallmann...
Fire & Ice. Neither Wallmann nor Felsenstein, both born in Vienna, began their careers in the world of opera. Felsenstein started out to be an actor, drifted into opera directing in the 1920s. He took over the Komische Oper in 1947, speedily built it into the operatic showcase of a city that also boasts the East Berlin State Opera and the vigorously competing West Berlin Municipal Opera. In a kind of operatic cold war, Felsenstein's now classic productions of Carmen, Tales of Hoffmann, The Bartered Bride attract as many operagoers from West Berlin (where Fetsenstein lives for maximum comfort...
...rest of their wage loss. On the other hand, the steelmakers will probably raise prices, adding somewhat to the inflationary pres sures on the economy. But the price rise is not expected to have a marked effect on the cost of living. Reason: many manufacturers of consumers' goods, oper ating in a highly competitive market, will have to absorb the price increases...