Word: faust
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...season's first performance of Faust last week, Met-goers saw how much Director Tudor has accomplished. Even for the enthusiasts (others regard any ballet in opera as sand in the spinach), the answer was: not very much...
...tackling Faust, Bing and Tudor had reversed a 31-year Met precedent. In 1919, principally because Faust seemed entirely long enough (three hours) without it, the Met had dropped the 17-minute Walpurgis Night bacchanale that opens the fourth act. Most European opera companies (Paris is one exception) also ignore the number. But to Manager Bing, the ballet in which Helen of Troy, Cleopatra and other famous beauties appear at the summons of Mephistopheles to tempt Faust seemed an integral part of the opera...
Rudi Bing's Metropolitan Operagoers will have to wait until March to hear her in Faust, Bohème and her first Madame Butterfly...
...York City Opera's smart Director Laszlo Halasz was feeling pretty pleased with the repertory of his crack little company. Mozart was well taken care of, with bright, fast-paced productions of The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni. So were the French, with Carmen and Faust, and the Italians, with Aida, La Boheme, Tosca, La Traviata. There was only one cloud in an otherwise sunny sky, but that one was a thunderhead: Wagner. Last week, with the help of an old Wagnerian, Halasz dissipated...
...River," says Eliot, "as it is and was and always will be, more clearly than . . . any other description of a river known to me." And the hero, Eliot goes on to say, is "one of the permanent symbolic figures of fiction; not unworthy to take a place with Ulysses, Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Hamlet...