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...shabby little (950 seats) Theater an der Wien was packed. And Vienna was particularly pleased to see that the first two right-hand rows were solid with Russians who cheered with everybody else. It was not greatly surprising that the Russians had come-after all, the opener was Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin, a longtime Russian favorite. The surprise was that they had joined inwith hearty applause for tall, dark-voiced U.S. Bass-Baritone George London (TIME, Jan. 9), who sang the title role...
Once subsidized by the Habsburgs but now granted about $1,000,000 a year by the Austrian government, the company performs every night for ten months a year in two houses: major productions in the Theater an der Wien, lighter works such as The Gypsy Baron at the Volksoper in the U.S. zone. A good part of the company puts in an additional five weeks at the Salzburg Festival. Such continuous performing is one good reason for the high sheen of the company's ensemble...
...first appearance at the Vienna Opera in 15 years was not a comeback. She was donating the proceeds of the performance towards rebuilding Vienna's bomb-damaged State Opera House. Whatever the purpose, the Jeritza-loving Viennese queued for 22 hours before the shabby little Theater an der Wien to see her again as Tosca...
...complained later that it was not the national anthem (Wilhelmus van Nassouwe) at all, but just a patriotic song (Wien Neerlandsch Bloed...
...International Edition of Jan. 13 re cinema actress Lida Baarova, wife of Gustav Frohlich, in the famous Goebbels slapping incident. Your article states Frohlich has not been heard of since. He is not only alive, but just finished a picture in Berlin, which is at present playing in Theater Wien on Kurfurstendamm. ... I told Frohlich he was dead, but he would not believe me. . . . JOHN F. RENICH...