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...premiere was to be Cimarosa's more-than-a-century-old Secret Marriage. Both operas are to be sung in English. Manager Johnson also plans revivals of such operas as Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, Wagner's Flying Dutchman, Saint-Saens's Samson et Dalila, Smetana's Bartered Bride (held over from last spring), Rimsky-Korsakov's Le Coq d'Or (for which Lily Pons spent this summer learning how to dance & kick), Mozart's Don Giovanni, Bellini's Norma...
...places was from 25? to $1.50. Result was that customers popped up who had never been inside the Metropolitan before. Though the Company's headline singers were gone for the summer, there was a Carmen complete with horses, a Rigoletto and a sprightly new English version of Smetana's Bartered Bride...
...used father when he pronounced his curse on Rigoletto, did even better as the ludicrous circus manager in The Bartered Bride. In Rigoletto the swashbuckling assassin was Baritone John Gurney of Jamestown, N. Y., who took up music after Harvard Business School. Marie's mother in the Smetana opera was Lucelle Browning from Durham, N. C., a product of the Juilliard School of Music...
...likely to be exceedingly popular, for they contain the great masterpieces of symphonic literature, which, with Toscanini's incomparable approach, will be anything but hackneyed. That of Monday evening consists of Weber's Overture to "Der Freischutz," Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, Brahms' Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Smetana's symphonic poem "Vitava," and Wagner's Overture to "The Flying Dutchman." The Tuesday program includes Brahms' Fourth Symphony and Strauss's "Death and Transfiguration...
Instead of an Italian melodrama crammed with deaths, the San Francisco opera opened with Smetana's folksy Bartered Bride. Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg sang clearly and cavorted like any plump Czech peasant girl. In the pit was bald old Alfred Hertz who conducted The Bartered Bride at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House before he went West to take over the San Francisco Symphony...