Word: librettists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Medium (Walter Lowendahl) is the most skillful and imaginative effort so far to bridge the gap between movies and opera, but it still leaves the gap wide open. Shooting in Rome to gain atmosphere and save money, Composer-Librettist Gian-Carlo Menotti has preserved the musical values of his successful short opera while turning it into a curious mixture of sometimes effective, sometimes static cinema sequences...
Died. Alfred Grunwald, 67, Vienna-born librettist, collaborator with Franz Lehar and Emmerich (Countess Maritza) Kalman of a heart ailment; in New York City...
...great many producers 30 or 40 years ago used to invest their own money in their own shows. They all died broke," Composer Richard Rodgers and Librettist Oscar Hammerstein 2d, co-producers of six successive Broadway hits, including South Pacific, wrote in the New York Times. "It is not our intention to die broke if we can help it ... We believe that outside capital can and should be invited into the theater...