Word: bizet
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...manages some tension in such rough & tumble scenes as the one where Don José and Garcia (Victor Jory) hack at each other with trowel-sized knives. The story is based on the Prosper Mérimée novel and does not make use of the music from Bizet's opera. It is prettier and more exciting than the opera could ever be without the score-but nothing about it begins to match Bizet's music...
Another Lunch. Melchior was not the only one prepared to rescue grand opera. In Manhattan, bustling little Showman Billy Rose, who jazzed-up Bizet in Carmen Jones, got front-page publicity with a proposal that wasn't as bumptious as it at first sounded. Five years ago, Billy had lunched with some Met board members, and made what Board Chairman George A. Sloan now gingerly refers to as "a number of helpful observations which were conveyed to our . . . management." Now Billy was again ready to be the Met's little helper...
...Plane to Bizet. Last week, Regina Resnik heard the familiar SOS again. At 2 o'clock in the morning, the telephone rang in her Manhattan hotel suite. Could she be in Montreal the next day to sing the title role in Bizet's Carmen? Soprano Winifred Hieidt had been taken ill in Chicago. Regina had sung the role in French only once, two years ago. She was still tired from a trip to Colorado, where she had sung Leonore in 13 performances of Beethoven's Fidelia. But by 2 p.m. she was on a plane for Canada...
Boston Symphony (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). Berlioz' Rákóczy March, Beethoven's Egmont Overture, selections from Bizet's Carmen, waltzes from Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, and Khachaturyan's Gayane, Sibelius' Finlandia. Conductor: Arthur Fiedler...
...coolly inviting his soul, Billy began to yearn again for the heat and excitement of the race. As he puts it: "I had stood still so long, I found vegetables growing up my legs." In 1943 he produced Carmen Jones-Oscar Hammerstein's all Negro version of the Bizet opera. It was a smash hit, and the first of Billy's Broadway theatrical ventures to bring him a profit. Billy then bought up the Ziegfeld Theater, which he owns and operates at a six-figure annual profit...