SEE BELOW for MORE MAGAZINES' Exclusive, detailed, guaranteed content description!* Careful packaging, Fast shipping, and EVERYTHING is 100% GUARANTEED. TITLE: METROPOLITAN OPERA NEWS (with program) [RARE and interesting literary magazine!] ISSUE DATE: MARCH 24, 1952; VOLUME XVI, NUMBER 21 CONDITION: Magazine size: Approx 7" X 10". COMPLETE and in VERY GOOD condition.(See photo) IN THIS ISSUE: [Use 'Control F' to search this page. MORE MAGAZINES' exclusive detailed content description is GUARANTEED accurate for THIS magazine. Editions are not always the same, even with the same title, cover and issue date.] This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 THIS WEEK : our cover picture, the work of Susan Peri, reflects the gentler aspects of the Alcestis myth, blessed by the mercy of the sun-god, Apollo. We are glad to introduce a new contributor, Ignace Strasfogel, a young Polish-born conductor who has been helping prepare the Alcestis production. Educated in Berlin, where he won the Men- delssohn State prize for composition and served as assistant con- ductor in the State Opera, Mr. Strasfogel came to the United States in 1933, has accompanied Szigeti, Melchior and Lehmann, and conducted the Philharmonic and New Friends of Music Orchestras. Investigating the glorious statistics of Kirsten Flagstad's Metro- politan Opera career, we are glad to learn that the great soprano's final Alcestis on April 1 may not be her last appearance on the operatic stage. A farewell performance -- perhaps of Dido -- is being discussed for London. The Alcestis production photographs on pages 18 and 19 were taken at the 1941 performance of the work, when Marjorie Lawrence, Rene Maison and Leonard Warren took the leading roles. The scenery remains the same in 1952. Issued weekly during the Opera Season and fortnightly in the Spring and Fall by THE METROPOLITAN OPERA GUILD 654 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK, N. Y. Full program listings, including many photos from the production! Full page photo of Kirsten Flagstad as Alcestis. The Metropolitan's Twentieth Week. Names, Dates and Places. She has swayed the immortals" -- Kirsten Flagstad. The English Alcestis, by Wolf Franck. John Gutinan's Alcestis, by Paul Nettl. Werther at Sadler's Wells, by June P. Austen. Opera in Rome, by Cynthia Jolly. Gluck and Wagner, by Alfred Neumann. Who was who in Alceste. Alcestis -- Broadcast of the Week. Opera on Records, by Louis Migliorini. Get Ready for Parsifal. Alcestis Rediviva, by William S. Ashbrook. Gluck and Marie Antoinette, by Maryla Friedlander. Heroes of Wood and Brass, the Orchestra in Alcestis. by Tibor Kozma. The Music of Alcestis, by Ignace Strasfogel. Flagstad's Contract. Letters. The Metropolitan's Twenty-first Week3rd cover. ______ Use 'Control F' to search this page. * NOTE: OUR content description is GUARANTEED accurate for THIS magazine. Editions are not always the same, even with the same title, cover and issue date. This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Careful packaging, Fast shipping, and EVERYTHING is 100% GUARANTEED.