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Absurd as it is, the opera contains some of Mozart's most brilliant, buoyant, vocal music. But in the huge Metropolitan, the slight comedy was as close to lost as a puppet show in Madison Square Garden. One of the principals, Dezso Ernster, the Met's new basso, spoke and sang English with a Hungarian accent so thick he could not be understood. Most of the others went at Mozart's trifle like a man swinging at thistledown with a baseball bat. Somewhere along the line someone had forgotten that Mozart's little Singspiel...
...Opera (Sun. 7 p.m., Mutual). Metropolitan Opera Basso Norman Cordon and Soprano Barbara Troxell in arias from Lohengrin, Faust and Otello...
Eveninq with Romberg (Tues. 10:30 p.m., NBC). Composer-Conductor Sigmund Romberg leads his orchestra in semi-classical music. Soloists: Soprano Genevieve Rowe and Basso Reinhold Schmidt...
...Figaro. These vocal varieties call for a versatile voice. Danny has it. It is a high baritone, with a two-octave range. He can impersonate an Italian baritone, bleat like an Irish tenor, mimic a coloratura soprano (almost reaching high C) or plead like a Slavic gypsy singer with basso profundo and schmalz...
Emanuel List, Metropolitan Opera basso, was labeled "dictatorial, insulting, penurious and cruel" by Wife Anny in a Manhattan court. She won a separation and $300-a-month support. The judge decided that the basso had abandoned her, even though the Lists did live in the same suite: a partition was between them, and List hadn't spoken to her since September...