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In South Bend last week, the NBC company ran into some of the troubles that all barnstormers are subject to; e.g., the sidelights were so blinding that one soprano twice bumped them heavily as she exited. But even so, the company had its listeners chortling at the gags as well...
She was tapped for the San Francisco engagement sound unheard, after Director Adler scheduled Francesca, then learned that his star soprano (Renata Tebaldi) would be unable to take the role after all. San Francisco listeners found the old (1914) opera dull and static in spite of its lush arias, but...
Holding onto her hat, Contralto Marian Anderson, well-armed with a rich repertory of Negro spirituals, operatic arias and just plain old songs, took off from New York's International Airport at Idlewild for Stockholm, the first stop on an eleven-week concert tour of Europe.
The Suez Canal crisis echoed in a surge of discontent from tiny Panama (pop. 900,000). Miffed at not being invited to the London conference on Suez, the government of President Ricardo Arias issued a defiant communiqué notifying the world that "this republic will not consider herself obliged to...
Structurally, the influence of light opera is apparent. Each act deals first with the peripheral characters and builds up to a big duet between Falk and Svanhild, the hero and heroine, with occasional arias for the hero (such as the celebrated tirade against tea). And each act even sports a...