Word: schoep
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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...technical aspects of the production are quite impressive, considering the difficulties that are involved. Here Conductor Hewitt Pantaleoni deserves much of the musical credit for his general victory in the running battle to keep everyone together with his 25-piece orchestra, while the stage direction of Arthur Schoep also keeps the pace lively with an abundance of stage movement. There is never a quiet moment. The borrowed sets are very stylish, as are Leo Van Witsen's costumes. The biggest advantage of using Agassiz is that its small size allows most of the words to be heard. The Barber...
...Schoep ended the Italian-English language dispute, deciding for the latter. As he put it, singing in a language all could understand was the only way that a meaningful "marriage of stage and voice" could be attained...
When Arthur Schoep, a seasoned campaigner at the New England Opera Theatre took the job, The Harvard Opera Guild began to feel respectable for the first time...
...most important task fell to the singers themselves. The great majority had never had major roles before and few of those who had stage experience had sung in grand opera. Still fewer were familiar with Boris Goldovsky's directing techniques as presented by Schoep...
Goldovsky followers may well see how successful the technique is in training excellent but comparatively inexperienced talent, for Schoep has done an amazing job readying the cast for opening night in a limited period of time...