Word: ebert
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Ariadne, a complex opera-within-a-play, was the four-year-old festival's most ambitious single project yet. Some of the credit went to chin-tufted Sir Thomas Beecham in the pit. But most of it was due to a big, swarthy, white-maned man named Carl Ebert, who has directed the famed Glyndebourne, and all of its festival productions, since Glyndebourne's start...
...Musical Convent." A onetime Max Reinhardt student, German-born, 63-year-old Carl Ebert is one operatic director who insists that his "singing actors" know "the exact meaning of what they are singing and . . . strive to make it sound believable by their actions and expressions...
...musical convent" at Glyndebourne, the Sussex estate of British Millionaire John Christie, Ebert puts even the most experienced star through four or five weeks of rehearsals before they ever get on the boards. He is likely to step out in rehearsal and say in a mild, pleasant voice, "Now in my opinion, what the composer wanted to show here was . . ." and then leap through the action himself. A perfectionist, he rehearsed one scene in Ariadne 50 times. Even after the opera is onstage, Artistic Director Ebert still finds work to do. At Ariadne's opening he perched...
When the festival is over, Ebert will board ship for the U.S. Since 1948, he has spent his winters teaching opera at the University of Southern California. He has already brought one of his American students to help him out of Glyndebourne and Edinburgh. Bob Herman, 25, son of onetime Brooklyn Daffy Dodger Babe Herman, is now his year-round assistant producer. Says Ebert: "Opera has a long way to go in America . . . There is too much accent on voices, not enough on stage presence. Nobody spends nearly nough time rehearsing...