Word: operetta
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...house lights in Moscow's Operetta Theater brightened for intermission as the first act of My Fair Lady came to an end. Suddenly, in the top balcony, a bearded young man rushed to the railing and shouted: "Freedom! Civil rights!" As he flung down fistfuls of leaflets, burly female ushers elbowed into the audience below, crying: "Give them back! Don't read them!" It took five minutes for officials to free the youth, who had handcuffed himself to the railing, and hustle...
...ANGELES, CALIF. Ahmanson Theater, the Music Center. José Ferrer plays the dual Don Quixote-Cervantes role in Man of La Mancha, a romantic operetta that resembles Don Quixote as it might have been written by Sancho Panza. But the settings and costumes are handsome...
...Emperor Josef II for a party, Mozart received a generous 50 ducats (about $300) for the work. In an effort to make it a "20th century transplantation," the libretto was reworked in English by Dory Previn, Conductor Andre's wife. Her adaptation makes it a gossipy backstage operetta of fights, love affairs and campy humor. The music that interrupts the cutesy dialogue is standard Mozart, but a carefully selected cast helps to make the one-disk album worth at least one hearing by those interested in such esoterica...
...occasion from the Dallas Opera, billed his "Nineteenth Century Affair" as an attempt to capture the "gaiety and spirit of the romantic era." Nowhere did it succeed more effervescently than in the centerpiece of the week-long festival: a polished, witty production of Jacques Offenbach's 1858 operetta, Orpheus in the Underworld...
...them alone make the book well worth reading. The best is the title story, which tells of the deep friendship between a testy old Spanish fisherman and an Albanian sailor, neither of whom ever learns to speak the other's language. In Life Is an Operetta, Ustinov uses his expertise to write a deceptively simple account of a Hungarian singer who will linger in memory as the quintessential Hungarian female on the make...