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Tenor Surface was singing Rodolfo in Puccini's La Bohème. It was the latest effort of one of the U.S.'s most remarkable opera groups, run by members of the Fair Lady cast for their own training and amusement...
...Sullivan Show (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Renata Tebaldi and Richard Tucker sing an excerpt from La Bohème, but only a snippet because Ed & Co. think good mu sic is scaring away audience...
...Gallic spirit, dating from a turn-of-the-century Paris that had never heard of existentialism. The work is not only good opera but good soap opera, telling the torturous romance of a working girl and her artist lover. The scene is the same turbulent Paris where Bohème's Rodolfo and Mimi loved, but while Puccini's Bohemians are really passionate Italians, Charpentier's characters are really Parisians-frothy, but a little stylized for all the sugar-sweet music. Made famous overnight by Louise in 1900, Composer Charpentier spent the rest of his life vainly...
Toscanini knew his limitations. Most of the cerebral music of the neoclassicists and the modernists, he said simply, is "not music for me." He was never notably a pioneer, though he introduced some of the music of his contemporaries (Pagliacci in 1892, La Bohème in 1896, the first performances in Italy of Wagner's Götterdämmerung and Siegfried). His abiding interest was "to come closer to the secrets of Beethoven and a few other eternal masters." For the majority of musicians, music lovers and critics the world over, he came closer to realizing...
...Opera (Sun. 2 p.m.). Puccini's La Boh...