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...Viscount Hidemaro Konoye, W. K. conductor here, has completed a modern and Japanized version of Puccini's Madame Butterfly which has been submitted to Paramount for possible production. . . . Konoye leaves for America July 21 and if agreeable, production will start soon after his arrival...
...group of musicians decided to enlarge the Mozart festivals to include other composers. Eight years later the old Winter Riding School was converted into a Festspielhaus, to seat 1,400. Salzburg's growing musical reputation blossomed powerfully in 1934 when Conductor Arturo Toscanini snubbed Nazi Bayreuth in favor of Salzburg. Thenceforth the Salzburg Festivals became the place for thousands of U. S. and European tourists to go, the playground for international socialites, the highest appointment singers & players could hope for. By last week the scurry and noise of thousands arriving, unpacking, celebrating, made the baroque little city look...
...withdrawing two of its most distinguished stars-Baritone Hermann Nissen (Hans Sachs),Tenor Henk Noort (Walther). Herbert Graf had plotted entirely new staging for Mozart's Magic Flute, and Toscanini planned to conduct it four times. Of the 27 performances scheduled Toscanini would direct twelve, two more than Conductor Bruno Walter. To Walter was allotted Mozart's Don Giovanni and Marriage of Figaro, Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice, Weber's Euryanthe. Conductor Hans Knapperts-busch, new to Salzburg, had the cards stacked in his favor. Rosa Pauly was to sing the title role in his production...
...credit for the force and fury of her acting, but New Yorkers were not impressed with her wiry, imperfect voice, scarcely at its best in the open air. They thought her dance of the Seven Veils more realistic than graceful. Ivan Ivantzoff was more secure as cowardly King Herod. Conductor Alexander Smallens made the score taut and exciting, shared honors with Stage Director Ernst Lert who has produced creditable Salomes at Freiburg, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Basle, Milan. Manhattan applauded the ingenuity with which Lert changed the Stadium platform into an Oriental terrace and clothed the singers in costumes out of Edmond...
Long, fuzzy-headed Ernst Panenka enrolled with the Boston Symphony in 1930. He was such a good bassoonist that Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky soon had him soloing with the orchestra. Last year Star Bassoonist Panenka began to play so poorly that Koussevitzky demoted him, threatened to fire him unless he improved. Suing for divorce in Dedham. Mass, last week. Bassoonist Panenka blamed his failing musicianship on his wife Rosa who, he alleged, threw dishes, slammed doors and whistled while he practiced. Divorce was granted...