Word: salzburger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost more than an ambitious impresario could resist, but Rudolf Bing, Austrian-born boss of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, loyally resisted. In Salzburg, Austria, he confirmed reports that he had been asked to take over Berlin's Staedtische Oper. "The offer was very tempting," he said, "because the Berlin Opera has a subsidy of more than $1,000,000 yearly, which makes the work there much easier than under the sad situation at the Metropolitan, where, from year to year, we must live from donations...
...Salzburg Festival, famed mainly for its glittering performances of Mozart and Richard Strauss, the season's big news was the world premiere last week of a modern, gloomy opera, The Trial. The music was by Gottfried von Einem, who, at 35, is regarded as Austria's outstanding postwar composer. The libretto was taken from Franz Kafka's novel...
...cold, incomprehensible bureaucracy until he is finally led away by two black-clad agents and stabbed to death. This macabre theme of man tortured by forces he does not understand was successfully used by Alban Berg in Wozzeck and by Gian-Carlo Menotti in his more popular Consul. Salzburg first-nighters, remembering Von Einem's earlier, impressive opera, Danton's Death (TIME, Aug. 18, 1947), came with high hopes. But by the final curtain, they found themselves less than spellbound, responded with lukewarm applause...
...Painter Kokoschka is just as lively as ever, a leathery, vigorous extrovert who likes nothing better than tilting at established institutions. He expects to have the time of his life in Salzburg with his 40 students. During his month-long course, financed by the provincial government, he has no intention of teaching his pupils how to paint in any classroom course. Says Kokoschka: "I will teach them how to see again. This is a faculty lost to modern society...
Grass for Life. If Kokoschka's students at Salzburg carry away one-tenth of his fiery individualism, he will be happy. This winter he will stay in Switzerland to work on a huge (52½ ft. by 10 ft.) painting of the battle of Thermopylae ("against barbarism, against uniformity") for the University of Hamburg. In the spring he will go to India to paint, and eventually, when he tires of travel, wander back to his London apartment. He has no studio; he likes to paint landscapes out in the open air, portraits at the subject's home...