Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...second opera was also a completely rebuilt production: Wagner's romantic The Flying Dutchman, which had not been staged at the Met in ten years. As he had for Verdi's Don Carlo, Bing went to Broadway for his designer, commissioned new sets sketched by Robert Edmond (The Iceman Cometh) Jones. Conductor Fritz Reiner polished cast and orchestra until they shone. If The Dutchman was less of a triumph than Don Carlo, it was mainly because Wagner had given the Met less of a grand opera to work with than Verdi...
London. His second successful opera, it was based on the legend of a Dutch captain condemned by the Devil to sail the seas until judgment day, unless, in brief excursions ashore every seven years, he could find a woman who would be faithful until death. The ghostly Dutchman finds his woman in the second act, but without giving operatic stage directors much lively theater business...
...Yorkers had heard London's loud applause for Christopher Fry last season. They were curious about him and prepared to be critical. Last spring, a few of them had seen his A Phoenix Too Frequent (whose wry brilliance had been dulled by a second-rate production). This season, a lot more of them will see a lot more of him. In addition to The Lady, Broadway will see Fry's translation of Jean Anouilh's charming French fairy-tale farce, Ring Round the Moon, which opens next week, and some time soon Sir Laurence Olivier will present...
...even with the naked eye clouds of "interstellar matter." They look like black holes punched in the Milky Way. With a telescope the astronomer can see long dark filaments and great round blobs, some so huge that it takes light 100 years (at 186,000 miles per second) to flash across their diameters. Made chiefly of hydrogen, mixed in places with dust of heavier elements, they are thinner than the finest laboratory "vacuum " but they outweigh all the stars scattered through and among them...
Married. Blanche Thebom, 33, mezzo-soprano who made the grade from a Baptist choir loft in Canton, Ohio to the Metropolitan Opera House; and Richard E. Metz, 38, Manhattan banker; he for the second time; in Manhattan...