This was our first rehearsal with full cast and orchestra in the performance hall, and when I arrived, the singers were on the stage, standing in clumps. The two married couples, the Bussanis and the Mandinis, chatted animatedly, while the prima donna, Nancy Storace, held court at the other end o...
A few rows of chairs had been set up to accommodate the small group that had gathered: the priests Krause and Urbanek, a few of the workers from the cathedral staff, the porter from Alois’s building across the plaza, and Franz Krenner, the proprietor of the bookshop where my old friend and I had ...