Word: orfeo
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...years ago, pretty Contralto Kathleen Ferrier had made a name for herself at Britain's Glyndebourne Opera Festival -and the name was Orfeo. Last week, after her first U.S. performance of Gluck's 187-year-old, seldom heard opera Orfeo ed Euridice, Manhattan operagoers understood...
...Italy, daughter Claudia took singing lessons, at 17 made her debut in Orfeo at La Scala, and sang in the Bologna opera house. Last January, while Ezio sat nervously in the audience, 25-year-old Claudia made her U.S. debut in Washington...
...usually assembles its best casts for Boston performances, and next week is no exception. There will be a chance to hear their beautifully sung and staged "Orfeo," the magnificent Wotan of Friederich Schorr, who will very soon be leaving the boards altogether, the fiery Carmen of a French newcomer, Djanel, and the unique Marschallin of Lotte Lehmann in "Der Rosenkavalier" who, like Monty Woolley in "The Man Who Came to Dinner," has spent her whole life training for the part. Keeping such a hugely expensive company on its financial feet during the war is becoming increasingly difficult, and this...
...Florentine musician in the court of the Duke of Mantua named Claudio Monteverde produced one of the first real operas. This work, "L'Orfeo", was revolutionary in character for it employed a wide varsity of musical forms as well as utilising what was then an unusually large orchestra. From this opera, two orchestral interludes titled Sinfonie and Ritornelli are to be played by the Symphony, providing an excellent seventeenth century balance for the rest of the program...
...music under a church organist, was later taught by the great French Organist Charles Marie Widor. Concurrently he studied theology, took degrees at the University of Strasbourg. A Protestant curate at 25, he became organist at 28 to the Societe J. S. Bach of Paris, later played tor the Orfeo Catala in Barcelona. Rapidly becoming an expert on the eschatological elements in Christ's thought, Dr. Schweitzer published in 1906 his epochal work The Quest of the Historical Jesus. But he felt satisfied neither as a man of letters nor as a man of Bach. A statue of a savage...