Word: operettas
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Galatea, the old story of Pygmalion and the beautiful statue come to life, was done in the classic style of Viennese operetta. Its star: blonde Soprano Virginia Haskins, of Manhattan's City Opera. Wearing a Grecian gown slit nearly to the hip, she romped through the score with lyric grace, fine acting and plenty of thigh. Menotti's brassy Amelia, with the Met's Eleanor Steber, kept up the hoyden theme. Soprano Steber's rich, gusty voice was just right for the girl who has made up her mind to go to the dance, though Steber...
...with serious music this summer, but Koblenz (pop.: 92,000) has a different idea. Koblenz offers a big pontoon stage on a quiet inlet of the Rhine, bleachers ashore for 3,000 spectators and snack bars plastered with Coca-Cola signs. It promotes itself as "The City of the Operetta Festival." The single operetta to be staged all this summer: a jazzed-up version of Johann Strauss the Younger's A Thousand and One Nights...
...show has been selling out every night. The attitude of the Koblenz city fathers: let Edinburgh, Salzburg and Bayreuth have the heavy stuff. At the present rate, the City of the Operetta Festival can expect 100,000 customers by the end of summer...
...Louis Municipal Opera: musical comedy and operetta revivals...
...hours last week, France's bustling city of Nancy (pop. 113,000) became old Vienna. Dispossessed archdukes, counts, princes and out-of-work nobles by the score had been routed from the attics of exile to play their parts in a real-life operetta. A happy peasantry, as gay in their slightly frayed folk costumes as a Shubert chorus, swarmed about Nancy's little Church of the Cordeliers. Who, for the moment, wanted to remember that the Emperor who was to be married there had no empire, that he had met his bride in a refugee camp...