JOHN BARBIROLLI & SADLERS WELLS OPERA COMPANY IN HAMBURG BU10468 - Object description : 11d9m1945... Original wartime caption: John Barbirolli looks at the ruins of the Hamburg Opera House. JOHN BARBIROLLI & SADLERS WELLS OPERA COMPANY IN HAMBURG BU10469 - Object description Original wartime caption: John Barbirolli looks over the script with another famous conductor, Mr. Braithwaite. With them are Parry Jones and Sybil Lloyd, two of the principal artists, and Bruce Worsley, the Sadlers Wells stage manager. JOHN BARBIROLLI & SADLERS WELLS OPERA COMPANY IN HAMBURG BU10470 - Object description Original wartime caption: A close-up of John Barbirolli and Mr.Braithwaite. JOHN BARBIROLLI & SADLERS WELLS OPERA COMPANY IN HAMBURG BU10471 - Object description Original wartime caption: John Barbirolli conducts the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra. JOHN BARBIROLLI & SADLERS WELLS OPERA COMPANY IN HAMBURG BU10472 - Object description Object description Original wartime caption: Scenes during the performance of "Madame Butterfly" the cast was Lt.Pinkerton [Arthur Servent] Sharpless the American Consul [William Booth], Madame Butterfly [Victoria Sladen] Suzuki [Edith Coates] The Bonze [Gilbert Bailey] JOHN BARBIROLLI & SADLERS WELLS OPERA COMPANY IN HAMBURG BU10473 - Object description Object description Original wartime caption: Scenes during the performance of "Madame Butterfly" the cast was Lt.Pinkerton [Arthur Servent] Sharpless the American Consul [William Booth], Madame Butterfly [Victoria Sladen] Suzuki [Edith Coates] The Bonze [Gilbert Bailey] JOHN BARBIROLLI & SADLERS WELLS OPERA COMPANY IN HAMBURG BU10474 - Object description Original wartime caption: Scenes during the performance of "Madame Butterfly" the cast was Lt.Pinkerton [Arthur Servent] Sharpless the American Consul [William Booth], Madame Butterfly [Victoria Sladen] Suzuki [Edith Coates] The Bonze [Gilbert Bailey]
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg - Wikipedia Eugen Jochum - Wikipedia Currently has... "In 1934 Jochum succeeded Karl Böhm as musical director of the Hamburg State Opera and the Hamburg Philharmonic. Throughout the Nazi era, Hamburg remained, as Jochum put it, "reasonably liberal", and Jochum was even able to keep his post despite not joining the party. He performed music by composers such as Hindemith and Bartók elsewhere banned by the Nazis. In 1944, Joseph Goebbels included Jochum in the Gottbegnadeten list. * In the postwar denazification initiatives, however, British and American authorities had a "high-level disagreement" over Jochum that was "an exception" to the usual pattern of British authorities following the American lead: after "initially clearing" Jochum and selecting him to conduct the Munich Philharmonic in May 1945, the American authorities temporarily blacklisted him on grounds that he "had done exceptionally well" during the war and that his brothers had been "fanatical" Nazis; but British authorities "found no fault" with Jochum, arguing that he had never been a member of the Nazi party, SS or Sturmabteilung, had remained a "convinced Roman Catholic," and had "not compromised his artistic integrity."[4] It took until 1948 before the American authorities determined that they could find no evidence of his joining any Nazi organizations." * Gottbegnadeten list - Wikipedia
Hamburg State Opera - Wikipedia "On the night of 2 August 1943, both the auditorium and its neighbouring buildings were destroyed during air raids by fire-bombing; a low-flying airplane dropped several petrol and phosphorus containers onto the middle of the roof of the auditorium, causing it to erupt into a conflagration."
Re. JOHN BARBIROLLI & SADLERS WELLS OPERA COMPANY IN HAMBURG BU10469 - Object description Original wartime caption: John Barbirolli looks over the script with another famous conductor, Mr. Braithwaite. With them are Parry Jones and Sybil Lloyd, two of the principal artists, and Bruce Worsley, the Sadlers Wells stage manager. ... and the other IWM pictures of them, I wonder if much can be determined from what can be seen of their uniforms? John Barbirolli - Wikipedia "In 1943 Barbirolli made another Atlantic crossing, avoiding death by a fluke: he changed flights from Lisbon with the actor Leslie Howard when the latter wished to postpone his own flight for a few days.[52] Barbirolli's plane landed safely; Howard's was shot down.[12] In Manchester, Barbirolli immediately set about reviving the Hallé. The number of players in the orchestra was down to about 30. Most younger players were serving in the armed forces, and to compound the shortage the management of the orchestra had ended the arrangement by which many of its players were also members of the BBC Northern Orchestra.[53] The Hallé board resolved that its orchestra must follow the example of the Liverpool Philharmonic, which the Hallé's former conductor Malcolm Sargent had transformed into a full-time, permanent orchestra.[5][54] Only four of the players shared with the BBC chose to join the Hallé.[55] The Times later wrote of Barbirolli's first actions for the orchestra: "In a couple of months of endless auditions, he rebuilt the Hallé, accepting any good player, whatever his musical background – he found himself with a schoolboy first flute, a schoolmistress hornist, and various brass players recruited from brass and military bands in the Manchester area ... The reborn Hallé's first concert somehow lived up to the Hallé's great reputation."[5] The Musical Times also noted, "From his earliest days with the orchestra it was the string tone that commanded immediate attention and respect. There was a fiery intensity and glowing warmth that proclaimed the born string coach".[18] Barbirolli retained his reputation for training orchestras: after his death, one of his former players commented, "If you wanted orchestral experience you'd be set for life, starting in the Hallé with John Barbirolli."[56] Further afield, critics, audiences and players in Europe and the United States commented on the improvement in the playing of their orchestras when Barbirolli was in charge.[57] Later he extended his teaching skills to the Royal Academy of Music, where he took charge of the student orchestra from 1961.[58] Barbirolli refused invitations to take up more prestigious and lucrative conductorships.[5] Shortly after he took over the Hallé he received an offer from the sponsors of an ambitious scheme that would have put him in charge of the London Symphony Orchestra,[59] and in the early 1950s the BBC sought to recruit him for the BBC Symphony Orchestra" Warwick Braithwaite - Wikipedia Currently has... "In 1931 Braithwaite joined the Vic-Wells, later the Sadler's Wells Opera Company, the company run by the fiercely autocratic Lilian Baylis, who persuaded the politicians Winston Churchill and Stanley Baldwin, the writers G. K. Chesterton and John Galsworthy, the composer Ethel Smyth, and the conductor Thomas Beecham to raise funds for a new theatre at Sadler's Wells in Islington, where there had been a theatre since 1683. The company performed not only opera, but ballet and theatre as well: among its stars were Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Margot Fonteyn, Robert Helpmann, Joan Cross, Constant Lambert. In 1931, Braithwaite's first year, the company performed fourteen operas; the next year it performed twenty six operas. In all the company put on fifty operas between 1931 and 1939: a remarkably ambitious undertaking. Braithwaite conducted Wagner's Mastersingers and Lohengrin Beethoven's Fidelio, the Mozart operas (including Cosi Fan Tutte, then rarely done), Verdi's Don Carlos and a highly successful Falstaff, the Puccini operas, and Ethel Smythe's The Wreckers. The theatre closed down briefly when the war began but soon reopened. Braithwaite conducted Puccini's Tosca at Sadler's Wells on the afternoon of 7 September 1940. Lawrance Collingwood conducted Gounod's Faust the same evening. That was the first night of the Blitz, and one of the worst. London was set on fire by waves of German bombs, 430 people were killed and 1,600 badly injured. Braithwaite watched the raid from the roof of the theatre. In 1940 he succeeded George Szell as principal conductor of the Scottish Orchestra and while there oversaw the expansion of its season from a three months to six months per year. While in Glasgow he also conducted the US Army Air Force Band, the band founded by Glenn Miller. During the war he was also much involved in the campaign to save the London Philharmonic Orchestra during these years and can be seen in the film Battle for Music, which documents that story. After the war he joined the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as Music Director of the Ballet Company where he conducted the western premiere of Prokofiev's Cinderella with Moira Shearer in the title role. He also conducted operas with some of the period's greatest singers, among them Boris Christoff in Boris Godunov, and Victoria de los Ángeles in her debut as Puccini's Mimi. And also a performance of Aida with Astrid Varnay singing Aida in Italian, Hans Hopf singing Radames in German and Jess Walters singing Ramphis in English. He toured Australia in 1947 as a guest conductor, with concerts in all of the mainland capital cities."
