Word: tre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...received at the Théâtre des Champs-Éilysées? Was there any truth in the report that the audience threw things...
...Firmin Gemier was born in Paris in 1865. The records reveal that fact quite plainly but they do not give the whole truth, which is that Gemier was born an actor. Most of M. Gemier's successes have been scored in the Théātre de l'Odéon, Frances second national theatre, although, from an artistic viewpoint, it might well deserve to be ranked first. In 1921 M. Gemier arrived at the summit of his ambition when he was appointed Manager of the Odéon, the theatre where he has created some 30 roles...
From this lapse he has just recently recovered gloriously. Paris had two Mozart festivals, both in the beautiful Theâtre des Champs-Elysées. The first of these was the venture of the Vienna Opera, complete with orchestra, singers, scenery and Herr Direktor Franz Schalk. It was part of an "official tour." Six operas were presented. There was no "modernizing," but the strictest possible adherence, to the purest Mozart traditions. Herr Schalk accompanied sections of the Don Giovanni on a harpsichord, that ancient ancestor of the pianoforte which Mozart himself loved for its faint and delicate tinkle. Restraint and sobriety...
...thus he was considered a radical, although he was carefully trained in technique. Besnard is President of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and Director of the Ecole Française in Rome. He has decorated many important Parisian buildings, notably the Hotel de Ville and the Théâtre Française. His activities cover also portraiture, and life in France and India. Doubtless ,the best of Besnard's work is being saved for the Pittsburgh show, but the present exhibitions are proof of his right to fame. Such canvasses as Sous des Saules (two women robing under...
...Italian novelty will be Montemezzi's Giovanni Gallurese, an earlier work than the popular Amore dei Tre Re. The scene is laid in romantic Sardinia during the Spanish occupation in the 17th Century. First performed in 1905, at Turin, it is said to be very melodious and effective...