THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1. 1962
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
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'Friends of French Opera" Said Starting Cultural War
By DELOS SMITH
New York -HOT - Cultural
wars begin so quietly and so
politely you may not even
know a new one has stalled.
This is to tip you oil that one
has, and the aim of the ag-
cressors is to get into your
heart and mind.
They want to make you
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aware there is French opera
and to make you unhappy be
cause so little of it is around
in our country. Their feeling
is American opera lovers have
been so saturated with Italian
opera by now they've forgot
ten about the other kinds.
These people are musicians
and opera lovers who have
formed themselves into "The
Friends of French Opera."
There is irony in French op
era now needing organized
"Friends;" persons over 40
can remember when it had a
respectable share of the Amer
ican Operate repertory and
those over 60 can recall when
it shared the repertory more
or less equally with Italian
and German.
These "friends" are not ba-;
sically francophile, under
stand. Basically they're oper-.
alic people who think the
American operatic diet has
been heavily unbalanced -j
much, too much pizza and spa-;
gclli and practically no crepes
suzetlcs and fluffy omelettes.
Mad Argument
In its new season now bril
liantly under way, the Metro
politan Opera made their ar-,
gumcnt for them. The season
opened with an opera which
is admitted even by Italians to I
be second-rate in the Italian I
operatic scale-" Andrea Che-
nicr." What's more, there are ;
other Italian second-raters in
this year's repertory.
But there is only one French
opera, Debussy's "Pclleas el.
Mclasande." There are six
German operas and a Russian
and a German opera which
have been anglicized. The re
maining 14 are all Italian.
Of these 14 most are univer
sally acknowledged master
pieces and not even the most
ardent admirer of French op
era would give off even a
faint sneer. But in the French
repertory are many a superior
of "Andrea Chenicr" and even
of "Andriana Lecouvreur,"
(to name another of the Mel's
dubious Italian entries.)
Massenet's "Thais" and
"Don Quichotte," for in
stance; or Thomas' "Hamlet"
or Halvey's "La Juvie" or
Berlioz' "Les Troyens." There
was a time when American
opera-goers sighed and gushed
over them and considered
them the very essence of the
operatic art.
One Was Joke
Once it was said as a joke,
but more and more there is
truth to the Met being "the
greatest Italian opera house
outside of Italy." Yet there
can be no criticism in that.
Clearly there is an enormous
and enthusiastic audience for
Italian opera. The Met gives
its patrons what they want
Observers with a mind for
history and cultural evolution
readily see the explanation.
Italian immigrants came to
these shores in great waves.
Their descendants are now in
terwoven into the American :
fabric, together with their in-1
hcrited operatic tastes which
they have given to Americans
of non-Italian antecedents.
To these observers the ef- j
forts of the friends of French I
opera are too little too late.
Americans now are so attuned
to the Italian they're not like-1
ly to find a place in their op-1
cratic hearts and minds for
rivals. I
However that may be, the
"friends" are launched on
their cultural war. This sea
son they'll sponsor two
French operatic concerts in
Carnegie hall, one Nov. 11,
the other Jan. 18- Next season
they plan to present four
French opera in their full
lengths.
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