Word: bidu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5:25 p.m., ABC). Gounod's Romeo et Juliette, with Soprano Bidu Sayao, Tenor Jussi Bjoerling...
...Bidu Sayao: Celebrated Operatic Arias (with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fausto Cleva conducting; Columbia, 8 sides). With the help of recording engineers, who build up her graceful little voice, Brazil's Bidu comes through handsomely. The eight arias are mostly from the roles (in Manon, La Bohème) which made Sayao famous at the Met. Performance: good...
Brazilians yell themselves hoarse over the spectacular quartet from Rigoletto, but they listened coolly while Sayao and French Baritone Martial Singher sang the climaxless Pelléas et Mélisande. Luckily for Bidu, she could do no wrong...
Pert, red-haired little Bidu Sayao was born into one of Rio's wealthiest families 39 years ago. She made her debut at Manhattan's Metropolitan in 1937, became famed for her slight-voiced but lyrically graceful Manon, Mimi (in La Bohème) and Meéisande...
...years Bidu gave Rio a wide berth. Reason: in her last appearance there in 1940 she was booed and hissed by a claque. The claque had been hired, cried she, by a jealous operatic impresario named Gabriella Besanzoni. Bidu swore she would return only when Besanzoni was out of power. Last week in true operatic fashion, Gabriella - now retired -swooped backstage after the first night's performance. Gabriella, dressed in full-length ermine, gathered Sayao into her arms and kissed her on both cheeks...