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Word: operating (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like many another East Berliner, famed Komische Oper Set Designer Rudolf Heinrich, 35, and his wife, Coloratura Joan Heinrich, 32, were worried by the rising of the Wall. They thought about fleeing to the West, but there was a lot to keep them in the East. There was Rudolf's politically favored position as star set designer of the Communists' showcase opera house; there was Joan's promising career as one of the house's new but favored singers. Then the Heinrichs heard a rumor that all foreigners in East Berlin would have to surrender their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lulu from East Berlin | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

...city has been the ancient Staatsoper on Unter den Linden in the Eastern sector, and operagoing has been a mixed pleasure for people from the Western half of the city. But last week crisis-weary West Berliners finally had their way. The striking new $7,000,000 Deutsche Oper Berlin, four years in the building, was opened on the site of West Berlin's old Deutsches Opernhaus, which was gutted by Allied bombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Wailing Wall | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

...musical terms. From this generous supply every player must, of course, select his own repertory of names. A good random beginner's list might include Hector Berlioz ("EC-tor BEAR-li-oss"), Emil Waldteufel ("VAAL-toy-ful"), Kurt Weill's Die Dreigrosch-enoper ("Dee Dry-GROSH-en-oper"), Puccini's Gianni Schicchi ("Johnny SKEE-ky"), Prokofiev's ballet, Chout ("Shoo!"), Conductor Eugen Jochum ("OY-gen YOK-hum"), Pianist Jorge Bo-let ("HOAR-hay Bo-LETT"). Advanced players will discover certain unaccountable omissions: where are Monteverdi's Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda or Composers Karl Heinz Stockhausen and Max Wilhelm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ah-ca-PELL-cT | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

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