Word: roles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...January 8, 1918, the late President Wilson gave his Fourteen Points to the World. One of them stipulated that all people speaking the same language should be concentrated under the role of one state. Theoretically the ideal expressed is beautiful, but immediately the Italians appropriated German-speaking Tyrol; France took German-speaking Alsace; and the German-speaking Czechs were ignored. As always the rights of the minority were neglected and the few were not consulted...
...poem as faithfully as Gounod's music. To this end the character of Mephistopheles has been so changed as to make him the embodiment of the negative forces of life rather than the conventional stage devil with incredible horns and tail. The apparent incongruity in the former double role of Faust is alleviated by having two artists sing the separate roles, one representing the aged philosopher, and the other the young man of the world, created by Mephistopheles, the conjurer. The role of Siebel, which is usually sung by a mezzo-soprano, is sung by a tenor. The reason...
...maid provide the humorous element. It has seldom been performed in this country. The first recorded performance was at Brooklyn in 1860, in Italian, under the title "Belmonte and Constanze". Two years later there was a performance in German at the German Opera House in New York.SELECTED TO SING ROLE OF LADY HARRIETT IN "MARTHA" ADELE VASA...
...Crowd. Director King Vidor and Scenarist John V. A. Weaver tell here honestly, finely, the story of an American Everyman, the man in the street, born to run with the pack. They put Eleanor Boardman, wife of Director Vidor, into the role of the wife, where she played with disconcerting beauty. They put James Murray, virile boy, into the part of John Sims, average child, average man. They seated him at a desk, one of a thousand clerks, high in a skyscraper. They sent him, fermenting with spring, to Coney Island with his girl, had him kiss...
...That four U. S. premieres will be given next season at the Metropolitan Opera House: Richard Strauss' Aegyptische Helena (The Egyptian Helen) the title role to be sung by Maria Jeritza for whom it was written, who also will sing it at the Vienna premiere on June 11, the birthday of the composer; Krenek's Jonny Spielt Auf (Johnny Strikes Up) with a black-faced comedian for the leading character; Respighi's Campana Sommersa (The Sunken Bell) and Pizzetti's Fra Gherardo. . . . That the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Directors have abandoned the three-million-dollar...