Wagner's Die Meistersinger was Hitler's favourite opera: the führer could whistle its overture note-for-note, and made attendance of it compulsory for Nazi functionaries at the Nuremberg rallies.
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"Telemann Overture Suite" opens with a somewhat note-for-note ensemble dance.
From the sweeping opening notes of the overture to "Rodelinda," Juilliard415 played the three instrumental works on the program with vigor and accompanied the singers with crisp sensitivity.
Moments later, as Hitler, he calls himself the German Ethel Merman, and the orchestra answers with the opening notes from the overture of "Gypsy," in which Merman starred.
Rice worked incessantly and was known for painting on the set almost until the first notes of the overture on opening nights.
But as soon as the orchestra struck up the opening notes of the overture, a medley of some of Garland's signature songs, the audience became both more relaxed and more excited.
But it was Utviklingssang, the ballad opened by Swallow's fragile bass overture, expanded by hooting long notes and eventually an impassioned tenor solo from Sheppard, that brought the house down in Manchester.
But the third week was Dutchman, and from the first ominous notes of the overture, opera was mine forever.
They maintained their poise as best they could, still braced for the opening notes of the overture, though all was in vain.
The whole thing zaps you back to a happier time and place right from the orchestra's first crackling notes of the overture (Depression -- what Depression?), and the spell just lasts and lasts.
