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Negotiations Resumed. But no one was prepared to call the canceled season irretrievably lost. Most of the Met singers were behaving as if they expected to be back at the old stand in the fall. Only two-Sopranos Birgit Nilsson and Anna Moffo-had announced their availability to other opera houses. In response to a pleading wire from Soprano Leontyne Price (who was to open the Met season in Girl of the Golden West), Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg called Bing and the union and offered his negotiating services to New York Mayor Robert Wagner. At week...
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Birgit Nilsson, Fritz Uhl, Regina Resnik, Tom Krause; the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Georg Sold; London, 5 LPs). This first complete recording of the opera in stereo comes close to equaling London's celebrated stereo recording of Das Rheingold. The sound of the orchestra is glowing and massive, and Nilsson's voice soaring through it and over it is a delight. For those anxious to peek behind the scenes, London has included a bonus recording of a rehearsal explaining how it was done...
...Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). "Signs of Spring," a musical med ley with Birgit Nilsson, John Raitt, Mar tha Wright, Paul Hartman. Color...
COMO PUCCINI: Turandot, Birgit Nilsson, Renata Tejussi Bjoeriling, Giorgio Tozzi Rome Opera House Or and Chorus conducted by Leinsdorf. RCA Victor LM ndot is Puccini's best and yet frustrating opera. "Best," be of the scope of its profound and dramatic characterize "Frustrating," because the touchstone, its final duet, not written by Puccini but one instead by a mediocre of his, Franco Alfano...
Turandot, like many operatic showpieces, is only worth doing when extraordinarily agile and durable voices can be found to cope with the music's demands. RCA has found such voices. Birgit Nilsson is just about perfect in the title role; perhaps her Turandot even surpasses her thrilling Isolde. Her complete mastery of the extremely high tessitura and lengthy phrases is joined to a subtle depiction of Turandot's change from imperiousness to docility...