Word: oskar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Germany's Hamburg TV wedded faces and voices in a topnotch production of Smetana's bucolic opera, The Bartered Bride. This exercise in "controlled schizophrenia" (used before in movies) began three months ago with tape recordings of such fine opera stars as Soprano Anny Schlemma, Basso Oskar Czerwenka. At show time the taped music flowed through loudspeakers as more photogenic players performed and mouthed the words. "Sacrilege on the spirit of opera," cried one German critic, but most other opera buffs seemed delighted...
...tale is set to an expansive, thickly melodic score which rarely bears any relation to the frenzies on stage but occasionally strikes some fine Straussian and Puccinian sparks. Recorded by a top-notch cast (including Dutch Soprano Gré Brouwenstijn, Tenor Hans Hopf, Baritone Paul SchÖffler, Bass Oskar Czerwenka), the album provides opera buffs with a rare look at a gifted but remote composer...
...that thing in your May 5 Art section Adele Astaire in 1926? Bosh! Oskar Kokoschka must have seen his sitter through his own tortured "inner life...
...Vienna before World War I, the maddest celebrity in town was Oskar Kokoschka. His morbid plays dramatizing strife between the sexes set off bitter café debates; his portraits turning the light on the psychological "inner life" of his subjects outraged complacent burghers. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne (whose assassination at Sarajevo in 1914 triggered World War I), gave it as his opinion that "this fellow's bones ought to be broken in his body." After the war, which dealt Kokoschka a head wound and a bayoneting, the artist moved to the front rank of avant...
This week 72-year-old Oskar Kokoschka, having outlived his tormentors, is giving Europe a mellow, retrospective look at 431 works, including many of his most famous portraits and landscapes, covering five decades of painting. Ironically, the show is in the squat, limestone House of Art in Munich that ex-Housepainter Hitler built to display a new Aryan art of beautiful supermen. In six weeks the show has drawn 45,000 visitors...