Word: birgit
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Tuesday, December 17 BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Guests include Soprano Birgit Nilsson, Singers Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, and Pianist Lorin Hollander...
With two suffering singers onstage-Birgit Nilsson was still in pain from a gallstone attack the night before, and Irene Dalis cried through all three intermissions over something like an inflamed T-Zone-Aïda never reached the pitch of performance that might have saved it from its staging. Designer Robert O'Hearn built a marshmallow Egypt; Stage Director Nathaniel Merrill strewed the huge cast across it like pistachio shells; Katherine Dunham firmly fixed a rhinestone in every navel within reach and made her debut as a Met choreographer nothing more than a tawdry reminder...
...furious pursuit of perfection has brought remarkable results. The company has given the first U.S. performances of such works as Britten's Midsummer Night's Dream and Cherubini's Medea, revivals of Nabucco and Ariadne auf Naxos, American opera debuts to such singers as Birgit Nilsson, Leontyne Price, Boris Christoff, Sandor Konya and Sutherland. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, who has yet to sing at New York's Metropolitan, has been appearing in San Francisco since 1955. On good nights, the opera's chorus and ballet are matchless in the U.S., and some of San Francisco...
...Erich Leinsdorf to the contrary notwithstanding [Aug. 23], we have more first-class Wagnerian singers now than we had in the Melchior-Flagstad era. In the last few years the Metropolitan Opera has offered us such topnotch artists as Birgit Nilsson, Leonie Rysanek, Gladys Kuchta, Inge Bjoner, Regine Crespin and Anita Valkki, sopranos; Jon Vickers, Sandor Konya and Jess Thomas, tenors; Jean Madeira, Nell Rankin and Irene Dalis, mezzos; George London, Hermann Prey, Walter Cassel and Eberhardt Wachter, baritones; and Jerome Hines, Giorgio Tozzi and William Wilderman, bassos...
...SINGERS. Joan Sutherland, Birgit Nilsson and Leontyne Price had only twelve listings among them three years ago; now they have 53, one less than Renata Tebaldi has all to herself. Tebaldi is still the most recorded soprano, but Elisabeth Schwarzkopf is gaining fast and will soon pass her. Maria Callas, who has not done much singing from opera house stages in the past three years, has had eight new recordings issued anyway. Rudolf Schock made the biggest gain among tenors (14 to 38), but it must give him an edgy feeling to see that Enrico Caruso, silent these many years...