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THE MARVEL OF MOZART

... art than Mozart's best and Chopin's last words were, Play Mozart in memory of me and I will hear you. It is tempting to wonder what more he might have done had he lived a normal lifetime. Sacheverell Sitwell has pointed out that to look at Mozart's portrait ...

Published: Wednesday 25 January 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1801 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

MOZART'S GREAT PANTOMIME

... opera-goers who. while acknowledging the greatness of Mozart's music, dismiss The Magic Flute libretto as a farrago of nonsense as contemptuously as their grandfathers did before them. Yet Mozart approached the composition of his last German opera in ...

Published: Wednesday 18 January 1956
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1437 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

Playing Mozart on the Fortepiano

... Playing Mozart on the Fortepiano Houston Rogers Russian-born Nina Miikma, who is considered by many to be one of the finest exponents of Mozart in this country, brought novelty to the Edinburgh Festival last night when she gave the Mozart recital at the ...

Published: Wednesday 22 August 1956
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 117 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

MOZART IN THE SUSSEX WEALD

... MOZART IN THE SUSSEX WEALD THE first performance of this year's I Don Giovanni at the Glyndebourne Festival combined all the pleasures this unique opera location has to offer, picnic suppers and strolls in the grounds be ing popular diversions in the ...

Published: Wednesday 21 July 1954
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 173 | Page: 35 | Tags: Photographs 

MOZART'S LAST OPERA PRODUCED AT OXFORD

... MOZART'S LAST C 'ERA PRODUCED AT OX ORD GREAT success attended the presenta tion, by Oxford University Opera Club, of the opera La Clemenza Di Tito, composed by Mozart in 1791 :or the Coronation of Leopold II. It was the first Mozart opera ever given ...

Published: Wednesday 17 December 1952
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 244 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

MAGIC OF GLYNDEBOURNE: TWO MOZART OPERAS AT THIS YEAR'S FESTIVAL

... grand tradition Professor of Opera at the University of Southern California, he comes to Britain each year to produce the Mozart Festival at Glyndebourne, and then again at the Edinburgh Festival. Busch, who has his own orchestra in Copenhagen, and who ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 646 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

MOZART AND THE FOUR ELEPHANTS: Austria's Post-War Musical Interlude

... its Mozart productions are unequalled. Here, in the prodigy's cradle, a magical performance of Figaro enchants all who can't get in, and keens them Ion? after enthnsimr in the Cafe Mozart, hard by the maimed Opera House on the Ring. I say Mozart's ir ...

Published: Saturday 11 November 1950
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1785 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

THE FIRST OPERA AT LONDON'S FESTIVAL HALL: The Vienna State Opera Takes Part in a Festival of Mozart Operas

... opened the two-week season of Mozart's i6 operas. The occasion marked the first visit of the Vienna State Opera to London since 1947 the season was arranged by the London County Council in association with the Haydn Mozart Society. ITALIAN OPERA ON LONDON'S ...

Published: Saturday 25 September 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 478 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

OPERAS AND SINGERS: Covent Garden Prepares to Celebrate Mozart's 200th Birthday; Troilus and Cressida at La ..

... Garden Prepares to Celebrate Mozart's 200th Birthday Troilus and Cressida at La Scala and Lily Pons' 25th Anniversary TTe final rehearsals for the new production of The Magic Flute to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Mozart were held last week at Covent ...

Published: Saturday 28 January 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 510 | Page: 33 | Tags: Photographs 

AFTER A DECADE--MOZART AT GLYNDEBOURNE AGAIN: Some of the audience who listened to Seraglio in a country-house ..

... AFTER A DECADE-MOZART AT GLYNDEB011RNE AGAIN Some of the audience who listened to Seraglio in a country-house setting on the Sussex Downs Among those listening to Seraglio on the opening night were these four members of the cast of the opera next to ...

Published: Wednesday 26 July 1950
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 137 | Page: 35 | Tags: Photographs 

PROGRAMME NOTES

... as other Mozart operas, but then it isn't all that easy to perform. Nevertheless it is full of lovely music and easy to listen to. Mozart was never didl even when he was writing a conventionally serious opera. 12 June. Cos! fan tutte by Mozart (1790) ...

Published: Wednesday 27 May 1959
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 656 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

GLYNDEBOURNE 1956

... THIS year's festival at Glyndebourne began last month and will continue until August 14. Since 1956 marks the Mozart bicentenary, six of Mozart's operas, Idomeneo, Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosi Fan Tutte and Die ...

Published: Wednesday 04 July 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 219 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs