Word: wozzeck
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...secretary & treasurer of the Philadelphia Grand Opera Association; of heart disease; in Philadelphia. First founded to gain local support for the San Carlo Opera Company, the Philadelphia Opera assumed independence under the able guidance of Founder Hammer and his wife, Mrs. Kathryn Cecil O'Gorman Hammer, produced, notably, Wozzeck (TIME, March...
...plans for a new $6,000,000 opera house, in this season's prospectus: Twenty operas have been announced, among them such ambitious undertakings as Richard Strauss's Elektra (scheduled for its first time this week) and Alban Berg's Wozzeck.* Famed Contralto Margaret Matzenauer will be one of this year's singers. Conductors will be Fritz Reiner, Eugene Goossens, Alberto Bimboni, high-priced Leopold Stokowski...
...Wozzeck will be given by the Philadelphians in Manhattan Nov. 24. At its U. S. première in Philadelphia last year many a critic pronounced it the most important opera since Pélleas et Mélisande. It tells a sordid tale of murder done a woman who preferred a swaggering drum-major to a downtrodden, pasty-faced soldier. Composer Berg's score is as powerful as it is radical...
...known English writer, is based on the life of Charles and Mary Lamb. This play was for a long time popular in London. "Danton's Death", by George Buechner, has been done in German in New York by the Max Reinhardt players but has never been given in English. "Wozzeck", another production of the same author, has been presented in this country as a grand opera, but never as a drama. "The Chaulk Circle" is an oriental fantasy which has enjoyed great success in Germany under Max Reinhardt. And finally there is a play by the German author Stefan Zweig...
...conducted, characteristically, by Erich Kleiber of the Berlin Staatsoper. This pleasant bald-headed gentleman (who, at the New York Philharmonic, is overshadowed by the severely classical Arturo Toscanini) has championed more modern opera than any other man in Germany. He directed the premieres of Austrian Alban Berg's Wozzeck (five years before Stokowski gave it to Philadelphia), Frenchman Darius Milhaud's Cristophe Colomb (written to the libretto of French Ambassador Paul Claudel), Czech Jaromir Weinberger's Schwanda, scheduled for performance at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera next year. It was Kleiber's enterprising programs, as well as his sound musicianship, which...