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...program also included Puccini's Gloria Mass, a work written in the composer's student days. The music was decidedly uneven, containing fine lyrical passages such as a strong theme for unison chcorus at the words "et unam sanctam." Much of the music, however, sounded like an Italian version of second-rate Schubert. It was the piece's first and probably last Boston performance...

Author: By Stephen Addiss, | Title: Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and Brandeis University Chorus | 12/13/1955 | See Source »

...possible, use his ex-choirboy's knowledge of the voice to make things easy for the singers ("They've had a rather poor time of it for the last 30 years"). He also decided to swallow any fears he might have about sounding like Verdi or Puccini. Last week, ten months after the London première, the New York City Opera staged its version of Troilus and Cressida. It was a direct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Opera in Manhattan | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

...Ferrer will put on putty for another re-creation of Cyrano de Bergerac. Eva La Gallienne will star again in Alice in Wonderland. Maurice Evans becomes a son of the American Revolution for George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple. Opera will range from Puccini's Madame Butterfly through a new English version of Mozart's The Magic Flute and Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin to world premieres of two new operas: Lukas Foss's Griffelkin and Stanley Hollingsworth's La Grande Breteche. Britain's Margot Fonteyn will dance in the ballet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: $75 Million Package | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...Cincinnati's "Opera at the Zoo'' begins its 34th season this week with Puccini's Tosca, continues to give standard grand operas for the next five weeks. Most of the stars are from the Met and the New York City Opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Outdoor Season | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

...composer who has come closest to being America's Verdi or Puccini. Gian-Carlo Menotti. last week took his Saint of Bleecker Street (TIME. Jan. 10) to Milan's great La Scala. Italian-born Composer Menotti, who has lived in the U.S. for 27 years, got a real gala-Scala panning from Italian critics. Wrote Rome's Giornale d'Italia: "There is not an idea, not a melody, not a note which is not either closely or distantly attributable to someone else ... If this is what it means to write opera, let's not talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera Boom | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

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