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...most memorable moment was one that few listeners were aware of. In the last act, with Mimi a-dying, Segurola (known mainly to a later generation as Deanna Durbin's teacher) suddenly turned to Caruso and whispered hoarsely that he could not manage his final aria, the "Coat Song." Grated the basso: "I've lost my voice...
...usual, Pasternak begins with a pretty soprano (Kathryn Grayson) warbling an aria. An itinerant celebrity (Jose Iturbi) is beating the fake rosebushes for young opera stars. Tunneling into this setup is a manly young truck driver (Mario Lanza) who has just the bouncing good looks and tenor voice to team up with the soprano...
...Symphony (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Soloist Robert Merrill singing Rossini's aria Largo al Factotum, and Whiffenpoof Song...
...only word . . ." wrote the Times-Star's Louis John Johnen. "Way above what we have come to consider par," mildly agreed the Enquirer's John P. Rhodes. Soprano Stella Roman and Tenor Kurt Baum won cheers all round for their singing (he especially for the aria, Come un bel dl di Maggio)*and Stella got a few extra cheers for her natural, convincing stage manner...
...cast did its best to put them at ease. That technical word aria, it was explained, is "nothing to be afraid of-it simply means 'song' in Italian." Ensemble -"that's when everybody sings together." By the time the audience had been let in on a few secrets of stage lighting, greasepaint, and how to put up the scenery, it was beginning to relax...