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: DECEMBER 5, 1955; VOLUME XX: NUMBER 5 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 represents a contemporary print of the assassination of the monarch which inspired Verdi to write Un Ballo in Maschera. "0 valiant Gustavus, King of Sweden," reads the caption, "what a horrible blow Ankerstrom gave you, that impious masquer in the opera hall. You are surrounded by the diabolic cabal of the conspirators and the assassin discharges his murderous pistol with sacrilegious hand. Wounded to death you leave the dreadful place with tottering steps, and the Major of the Guard with thundering voice commands that no one leave the room. But this barbaric action is discovered by a knife, found by an act of providence." Another searching article by John W. Freeman indicates that this young composer does not spend all his time in sports cars, as suggested in the New Yorker description of his recent Random House book on that subject. We offer the first news of opera in Dresden to reach our publication in the last five years. In a new feature, Opera Off the Beat, we will attempt to cover performances of new or unusual operas or interesting experiments in production in and near the metropolis. Full program listings, including many photos from the production! Names, Dates, Faces. Tensions at the Ball, by John W. Freeman. Return Engagement: Many Masks for Verdi, by Herbert Peyser. Behind the Dresden Curtain, by Werner Frost. The Long View. Orchestral Holiday. Festive Latins. Opera Banquet in Mexico, by Manuel Aguilar, Jr. Blue Skies for Buenos Aires, by Eduardo Arnosi. Jason's Other Wife. Marian Anderson's Witchcraft. Un Ballo in Maschera--Opera of the Week. Jan Peerce, Zinka Milanov, Robert Peters, Robert Merrill. Opera on Records, by William D. O'Hara. National Council Scholarships. Southern California Tidings, by Juliette Laine, Jeanette. Grodman, Maria DeMonte. Opera Off the Beat. ______ 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.