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...Berlin, last week, Maestro Arturo Toscanini announced after the Scala Company's festival performance that only once more-at the Bayreuth festival next summer-will he conduct opera. Thereafter his baton will wave only at symphony concerts...
...Paris Opera and Opera Comique; Alfredo Gandolfi, baritone, favorite interpreter in his native Italy of such roles as Don Giovanni; Tancredo Pasero, basso, of European and South American fame. Josef Rosenstock, conductor, will be imported from Wiesbaden to replace Artur Bodanzky; Ernst Lert, stage director of La Scala at Milan, to replace Samuel Thewman...
...Champs-Elysees Theatre by the Turin Opera Company, conducted by Tullio Serafin of the Metropolitan. Germany's offerings are endless. In Berlin, beginning May 19, operatic activities include Wagner, Strauss and Mozart cycles, festival concerts under the direction of Conductors Furtwaengler, Kleiber, Klemperer, Walter; guest appearances of the Scala Opera of Milan under the direction of Toscanini. In Munich, the usual Wagner & Mozart Festival takes place from July 23 to August 31 at the Prince Regent and Residence Theatres. Musical events in Vienna and lower Austria from June 2 to 16 include ballets and serenades by the Vienna Philharmonic...
...Scala, in Milan, Arturo Toscanini conducted a new opera by Ildebrando Pizzetti. Its story, taken from a mediaeval monk's chronicle, was that of "a young Parman of low birth, layman, idiot, and fool," one Gherardhino Segarello, whose reckless career of devotion and debauchery caused him to be put in jail, led out only to amuse guests when the Bishop of Parma gave a banquet. Pizzetti had chosen to make a martyr of this squalid clown, to endow his dishonorable poverty with Franciscan splendor...
...Italy he is conductor of the Scala Opera in Milan-but he likes a concert orchestra better. He is interested in politics, ran once for the Italian Parliament on a Fascist ticket. His hobbies are painting and riding in a fast automobile; his life spent simply with Signora Toscanini, his two daughters-Wanda and Wally (the w's pronounced as v), his son Walter, a book collector in Milan...