Word: romeos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Arturo Toscanini, after a two-months' vacation, conducts Berlioz' Romeo and Juliet (first half). Soloists: Mezzo-Soprano Gladys Swarthout, Tenor John Garris...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5:25 p.m., ABC). Gounod's Romeo et Juliette, with Soprano Bidu Sayao, Tenor Jussi Bjoerling...
...Paris Opera-Comique, sang more than 250 Carmens and Mignons in seven years. When the Nazis took Paris, she fled to the U.S. For nearly two years New York considered her just another refugee. Then Toscanini signed her to sing Juliette in Berlioz's dramatic symphony Romeo et Juliette, and Stokowski chose her to sing the mezzo-soprano solo in the U.S. premiere of Prokofiev's cantata, Alexander Nevsky. Says Jennie: "All of a sudden everything came to me." After her Town Hall debut in 1943, the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson wrote: "Miss Tourel...
Inspiration for this Romeo & Juliet parody (by Sagittarius, Britain's shrewdest satirical versifier, in the New Statesman and Nation) was Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery's five-day visit to Moscow, where, as part of his lavish entertainment, he was taken to a gala performance of Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet. The Chief of the Imperial General Staff was feted as few foreigners have been in Moscow. Well aware of the recent British drift, especially among left-wing Laborites, away from the U.S. and toward Russia, the Kremlin was trying its best to encourage the trend...
...diamond jubilee was a jubilee indeed (in a restrained, Fabian way). Sir Thomas Beecham, who quit the Fabians because they slighted the arts, let bygones be bygones and conducted the overture to Die Meistersinger and the Fantasia from Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet. As the music died away, the blue curtains parted. After a slight (inevitable) delay, the large balding head of Quintus Fabius Maximus' disciple Harold Laski popped through the white backdrop. Laski, peering over the big red carnation in his buttonhole, advanced to the rostrum followed by Prime Minister Attlee, Lord President of the Council Herbert...