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...well as listen, have long bewailed opera's dramatic knocks and squeaks. Now and then zealous directors, and intrepid groups of operatic artists, have decided to do something about them. Most prominent of these groups in recent seasons have been England's Glyndebourne Opera, and the Salzburg Opera Guild...
Since 1923, when it made its debut in Salzburg, the society has held its annual egg rolling in nearly every important country in Europe, and composers from more than 20 nations have flocked to them like hens to feeding time. Most recent of them have taken place in Prague...
Since the Nazis took control of Austria's music, leaving the future of Austria's famed Salzburg Festival in doubt, the air from Hollywood to Paris has resounded with projects for new "Salzburgs" outside Greater Germany. While most of these projects have been evaporating in talk, certain features of the Salzburg idea have quietly come into being at Glyndebourne, an old Tudor manor in the midst of England's hilly South Downs, 60 miles from London. Glyndebourne, content to remain in character, has not proclaimed itself the "Salzburg of England." But responsible critics have acclaimed the Mozart...
...behind Glyndebourne is Capt. John Christie, wealthy ex-science teacher at England's swagger Eton College, and present owner of Glyndebourne Manor. A lifetime lover and patron of music, a constant attender at the Salzburg and Bayreuth Festivals, Captain Christie long had an ambition to establish an operatic festival of similar quality in England. In 1933 at Copenhagen he unfolded his scheme to round-faced Conductor Fritz Busch, German political exile and famed former conductor of the Dresden Opera. Enthusiastic Maestro Busch called in the help of his expatriated countryman, Stage Director Carl Ebert. With Austrian Impresario Rudolf Bing...
Protesting Westporters, preferring rural quiet to culture and glory, feared that their "simple" village would be turned into a Connecticut Coney Island instead of an American Salzburg. "We don't want to be the Salzburg of America," declared one anxious Westporter. "We want to die in peace...