Word: salzburger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Salzburg's Mozart. Salzburg put on a winning Magic Flute, aided by the close harmony between Conductor Georg Solti and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and by Stage Director Herbert Graf's adept use of the vast, open-air Felsenreit-schule* stage. But everyone agreed that it was the sets that gave the new Flute its real magic. Mozart's mystical fantasy of free masonry unfolded among three Egyptian temple arches of flesh-pink, violet, cerulean blue, turquoise, cobalt and yellow. The middle arch was framed by black sketches of symbolic heads, and its opening revealed projected landscapes...
Both Würzburg and, this year, Hannover have moved in on Mozart programs, which used to be virtually cornered by Salzburg, while Italy's Bari, hitherto barely in the festival swim, is patting itself on the back for having landed a prize catch this year: Pianist Artur Rubinstein. Doing the festival rounds even faster than the fleetest-footed music tourist will be a gaggle of other big-name artists. The speed and distance record probably goes to famed German Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, who will dash between Scandinavia (Helsinki, Bergen), Switzerland (Lucerne), Belgium (Ostend), France (Aix and Besanqon...
...Salzburg (July 24-Aug. 30) continues to concentrate on its very own Mozart, but its big news this year is the world premiere of German Composer Werner Egk's opera Irish Legend. Other items: new sets for Mozart's Magic Flute by brilliant Austrian Expressionist Oskar Kokoschka, star-led concerts by the Vienna Philharmonic...
...Salzburg-born Herbert von Karajan, 46, began his career as a pianist, became conductor of a small opera house (at Ulm) when he was 21. Today he is regarded as one of the world's finest conductors, but personally one of the most difficult. In 1939 he began a running musical feud with Furtwangler. In 1948, when both men were conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, Von Karajan left when he lost a battle over rehearsal rights. Later, he also abandoned Salzburg to his older rival, took refuge in Bayreuth, which he left in turn after he insisted on changing some...
...wise decision by the state censers to ban the movie Desires on Sundays reveals the consistency of their policies, which we have often had the pleasure of seeing put into action. The movie begins at the presentation of a morality play at Salzburg. But soon the protagonists, a ballerina who is a helpless dope addict, a city health official who is a pillar of righteousness, and happy family owing a pharmacy, are entangled in the problem of good and evil. Through a series of decisions the latter characters conquer the evil which grips the ballerina and involves, by extension...