Beginning this week seven American operas —seldom heard even sandwiched in between Aïdas and Carmens —will be performed in a seven weeks’ row —the first cycle of native opera ever to be given in the U ...
For the first two thirds of Wedgwood's 30 Years War, the utter misery of the peasantry is softened by the splendor of the titans of early modern Europe--Wallenstein, Adolphus, Ferdinand etc. But by ...
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The Southern California Symphony Association presented its new musical director, Alfred Wallenstein, to an audience which filled the Philharmonic Auditorium to the top row last night. The orchestra, ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Shakespeare Theatre Company has paired Shakespeare's Coriolanus with ...
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Claim to fame: Didn't get the severance package he had hoped for Wallenstein prospered by providing armed regiments to Ferdinand, the Habsburg emperor, during the Thirty Years' War. Born into a minor ...
The plot synopsis in the program for Friedrich Schiller’s “Wallenstein” at the Shakespeare Theatre Company begins: “It is 1634. The Thirty Years’ War has been raging across Europe for 15 years.” And ...