Word: opers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stunning revival of the Excursions of Mr. Brouček was a hit last summer at West Berlin's Deutsche Oper, as was the Stockholm Royal Opera's The Makropulos Case in Munich last month. The San Francisco Opera gave Jenufa its first professional performance last week on the West Coast. "Pile-driving drama," critics raved. "Music that stabs, jabs, spins, lunges, pecks, soars." This week 185 stations will carry National Educational Television's color production of From the House of the Dead, which is likely to provide an hour-and-a-half of emotional shock...
Russel Morrison, the 37-year-old president of Standard & Poor's-a company that specializes in financial reporting-decided that the best way to improve profits of the S. & P. counseling oper-'ation was to spin it off as a separate firm under bolder management. He turned to Stein, then a partner at Oppenheimer & Co. Stein had earned a reputation as an analyst by his spotting of Syntex, Control Data and semiconductor stocks. Last year he earned more than $1,000,000. At InterCapital, Stein has three friends. The No. 2 man, Arthur Zeikel, 36, moved from Dreyfus...
...bitter misery. Henze has said: "This music fashions, out of itself, its own new dwellings from which it will emerge and explain itself only for those who can show it a suitable visiting card." Those with the right visiting cards will be gratified by the excellent cast from Deutschen Oper Berlin, plus a libretto with color photos of Gustav Rudolf Sellner's lavish original sets and costumes, including the young lord's remarkable monkey suit...
Just in case the thought runs through your fertile brain that I am a frustrated old maid: I am 27 years young, measurements 35-24-35, a redhead, and a mezzo-soprano at the Deutsche Oper. I am considered not to be a prude but to have especially discriminating taste...
Buildup Their green twill uniforms and tan pith helmets identified them as North Vietnamese regulars. Intelligence said they belonged to Ho Chi Minh's 324B Division, which the U.S. Marines had routed out of South Viet Nam in Oper ation Hastings in July. Back up to full strength, the division was once more on the move. Advance units had infiltrated back across the supposedly neutral de militarized zone, perhaps to secure a foothold from which Ho's invaders could launch a major offensive...