Word: premi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World première of Pizzetti's Rondo Veneziano, to be played by New York Philharmonic Symphony orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; in Manhattan...
...American premiére of Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko, at Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan...
...Tellegen, actor, fell asleep in an Atlantic City hotel while smoking, was rescued from the blazing bed, taken to a hospital suffering burns on his hips. Against his physician's advice he appeared in the première of a new play, Overture...
Last summer Judith, a one-act opera in English based on the apocryphal legend of Judith and Holofernes,* the music by Eugene Goossens, the text by Novelist Enoch Arnold Bennett, had its world première at London's Covent Garden (TIME, July 8). Last week Judith was given its first U. S. performance by the enterprising Philadelphia Grand Opera Company. Soprano Bianca Saroya was satisfactorily bloodthirsty as Judith. Russian Basso Ivan Steschenko sang sonorously as Holofernes but failed to make intelligible the pompous passages done by Novelist Bennett in the Biblical idiom. British Composer Goossens conducted his music...
Another one-act opera by another British conductor had its première last week in Munich. Samuel Pepys was its name, Albert Coates its composer. Librettists Richard Price and Lieut.-Col. W. P. Drury concocted a characteristic Pepys plot out of their imaginations, had the scampish Samuel entertain an actress, Mistress Knipp, with wines and spinet-playing; had Mistress Pepys return inopportunely but not until Mistress Knipp had time to disguise herself as the Merry Monarch Charles II honoring his Secretary of the Admiralty with a visit. Müncheners greatly liked this synthetic Pepys given them...