Word: schoeffler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conductor Reiner's tempos were fast enough, but even so, it was a Don done in slow motion. Roberta had to take her first note against a Don (Baritone Paul Schoeffler) singing off-key; she hit it on the nose. Acting with confidence and pinpointing her coloratura targets in a clear, clean little voice, Roberta managed to win the biggest hand of the evening...
Since the war, Vienna's State Opera has been the touring company of Europe. The U.S. has heard and applauded some of its stars, e.g., Soprano Ljuba Welitch and Baritone Paul Schoeffler. Now the company would like to show the U.S. all of its wares. Veteran Importer Sol Hurok is negotiating, but it looks as if the U.S. might still have to wait a while. Neither Hurok nor the Austrians are yet prepared to ship over an orchestra (the Vienna Philharmonic) of 113, a chorus of 106, singing principals, sets and chief stage hands...
...could not catch the fast flow of German words and wit found few arias to cling to. But connoisseurs found some puckish operatic humor to smile over. Sample: when one character asks, "Why not compose an opera on a mythological theme?" the Producer (sung by Bass-Baritone Paul Schoeffler) replies, to a melody from Strauss's 1912 opera, Ariadne auf Naxos, "But it's been done." Smiled Baritone Schoeffler: "The old man had fun when he wrote this...
Paint & Poison. Married to an Englishwoman who works with the International Refugee Organization in Vienna ("a very important lady"), Schoeffler has homes in both England and Vienna. The Schoefflers' 17-year-old son Peter, a British subject, is studying economics at Oxford. He wants to be a singer too ("he has the same voice I do"), but papa Schoeffler is trying to say no-"This business of dressing up in a silly costume, putting on a wig and paint on the face and getting killed or poisoned or drunk every night, it is no good...
...Papa Schoeffler himself is in for a good deal more of it next season at the Met. Thus far, he is scheduled to sing a Ring cycle, The Flying Dutchman and the " wicked Pizarro in Beethoven's Fidelia, with Kirsten Flagstad...