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...found few arias to cling to. But connoisseurs found some puckish operatic humor to smile over. Sample: when one character asks, "Why not compose an opera on a mythological theme?" the Producer (sung by Bass-Baritone Paul Schoeffler) replies, to a melody from Strauss's 1912 opera, Ariadne auf Naxos, "But it's been done." Smiled Baritone Schoeffler: "The old man had fun when he wrote this...
...Auf Wiedersehen . . ." The opening scenes show a German company moving up to the Cassino front. The major character, Pfc. Gühler, obviously a facsimile of Author Richter, believes that the Nazi army is doomed; his buddies are beginning to doubt the Führer's omnipotence. Some German soldiers, hoping to be captured, greet each other with the wisecrack, "Auf Wiedersehen in Kanada...
Furthermore, Strauss was box office, as Halasz had proved with Salome and Ariadne auf Naxos. And, best of all, he had just the cast to sing the opera. Last week, Der Rosenkavalier' s first City Opera Co. performance proved Director Halasz exactly right...
...What the jazz boys have done with the clarinet," says Kell, "is colossal." Goodman was one of the first to greet him on his arrival, and at lunch later at the Stork Club, complimented him on his "free and warm" playing on records of Schubert's Der Hirt auf dem Felsen. As for playing "the other kind" himself, Kell once made a record of Swing Low, Sweet Clarinet, but admits that "In a jam session, I'm like a rabbit at a stoat's tea party...
...pace. Halasz had picked up some ideas from Broadway and Hollywood, including pretty girls in the chorus and the use of screen projections for scenery. The Met has snapped up ten of his singers, including Dorothy Kirsten, Regina Resnik, Polyna Stoska. His performances of off-beat operas like Ariadne auf Naxos, and Eugen Onegin play to near-capacity audiences...