Dimitri Mitropoulos Puns

Opera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLVWMRwSCxg

Maria Callas was originally slated to create Vanessa in Samuel Barber's opera. Despite the use of her photo in early promotional material on the opera's premiere, Callas either backed out or never actually agreed to do the role. As a result, Sena Jurinac was all set to make her Metropolitan Opera debut in the role until she fell ill not long before the premiere. Eleanor Steber was then enlisted to sing the entire run of performances.

Samuel Barber received the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Vanessa. An interesting note: The composer, librettist and conductor were all openly gay. Barber and Menotti were living together as a couple.

Metropolitan Opera House

January 15, 1958

World Premiere In the presence of the composer

VANESSA {1} Barber-Menotti

Vanessa.................Eleanor Steber

Anatol..................Nicolai Gedda

Erika...................Rosalind Elias

Old Baroness............Regina Resnik

Doctor..................Giorgio Tozzi

Nicholas................George Cehanovsky

Footman.................Robert Nagy

Conductor...............Dimitri Mitropoulos

Review of Max De Schauensee in the Philadelphia Bulletin datelined New York.

The world premiere of Samuel Barber's "Vanessa" at the Metropolitan Opera House last night, added up to a great triumph for the composer, the librettist, Gian Carlo Menotti, for conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos and for a fine cast.

A brilliant audience which crowded the vast spaces of the Metropolitan to capacity, singled out the principals for repeated applause and gave the composer and his associates 17 calls at the final curtain. This was the first American opera to be heard within these walls since Bernard Rogers' "The Warrior" was produced in 1947.

The new opera, by the West Chester, Pa. composer, was given a sumptuous and meticulously detailed setting by Cecil Beaton, which emphasized the Northern background of the story of love lost and love regained.

Mr. Barber has written a sophisticated score with plenty of vocal opportunities for the singers. The preludes which anticipated the scenes were particularly evocative. There were solos for soprano Eleanor Steber and duets between the heroine and tenor Nicolai Gedda, excellent in the role of the volatile Anatol. Strong personal successes were obtained by Rosalind Elias, as the forsaken Erika, and by Giorgio Tozzi as a kindly and 

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

He lost May

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

And boy are my arms legs.

Put it on my bill

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

A play on words.

Calcium, nickel, neon

My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.

Pilot on me!!

Christopher Walken

I have some nice Classical albums that don't get played often. If you're into the genre this would be a good addition, there are 13 discs total between these.

$25 shipped SOLD

Grading is Record/Sleeve

• Debussy, Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic - Images For Orchestra (Complete) - (VG+/VG+)
• Eugene Ormandy - Philadelphia Orchestra - The Debussy Album - (VG+/VG+)
• Chopin, Emanuel Ax, Eugene Ormandy - Concertos No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11 - (NM/VG+)
• Gary Graffman ♦ Eugene Ormandy ♦ George Szell, Philadelphia Orchestra* ♦ Cleveland Orchestra* - Tchaikovsky* - The Three Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos - (VG+/VG+)
• Bach ‎– Messe H-Moll = Mass In B Minor = Messe En Si Mineur 3xLP - (NM/VG+)
• Leonard Bernstein, Erich Leinsdorf, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Ernest Schelling, Bruno Walter - Great Conductors As Soloists With The New York Philharmonic - (NM/VG+)
• Sir Thomas Beecham, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Beethoven Symphony No. 2 In D Major. Overture and Incidental Music "The Ruins Of Athens" - (VG+/VG+)
• Wynton Marsalis Plays Handel, Purcell, Torelli, Fasch, Molter - (NM/VG+)

Nothing, he was gladiator.

The bartender says, "Sorry, no minors”