Word: operetta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whirling through Strauss's waltz-time score, the Met orchestra never sounded better. As Dr. Falke (Fledermaus), the source of the operetta's intrigues, suave Baritone John Brownlee sang and acted with aplomb. Dressed to the teeth in a scarlet and white uniform and waving an 18-in. cigarette holder, Mezzo Soprano Risë Stevens brought the house down in her entrance as the bored host, Prince Orlofsky...
Bumps & Grinds. There were a few jarring notes. As the operetta's dupe, Eisenstein, Wagnerian Tenor Set Svanholm occasionally staggered like a fugitive from Götterdämmerung. Red-haired Soprano Ljuba (Salome) Welitch sometimes overacted her Rosalinda. Antony Tudor's ballroom ballet was a sour grape. But the singing and acting of the Met's 25-year-old Coloratura Patrice Munsel (as Adele) made up for all of that. Slim, pretty Patrice twice stopped the whole show cold. Her first show-stopping smash, delivered (with the help of new lyrics by Howard Dietz) with...
...remarkable that in the 75 years or so since the team of Gillbert and Sullivan was flourishing, there has been no such musical comedy or operetta which has even remotely approached their brilliant style. And it is perhaps even more surprising that the Savoyard masterpieces have lost little of their appeal in the decades that have intervend...
Johann Straus' operetta will be produced at Rindge, Tech, and will be fully staged. The Chorus and orchestra will be composed of students...
GEORGE F. SKINNER '50, the Boat walins Mate, stands to the left, giving Rackstraw the truth: that Josephine really does love him. Between the Boatswaln's Mate and the chorus, Rackstraw is persuaded to lay down his pistol, and the operetta can continue on to his eventual happy ending...