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...Sutherland and Callas again, and out to draw blood. Callas plays Verdi's Lady Macbeth, chilling in the sleepwalking scene, and Sutherland is Donna Anna, crying vengeance on Don Giovanni at the top of her voice. The other reigning sopranos in this international exposition are Sweden's Birgit Nilsson singing Beethoven, France's Regine Crespin singing Wagner, Germany's Elisabeth Schwarzkopf singing Mozart, and Spain's Victoria de los Angeles singing Verdi and Gounod...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Guests include Soprano Birgit Nilsson, Dancers Gwen Verdon and Peter Gennaro, Singers Jack Jones and Susan Watson. Color...
Wagner: Siegfried (London). Georg Solti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic and a near-perfect cast (Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen and Joan Sutherland) in the first complete and uncut version of Wagner's magical vision of Teutonic lore...
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...