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Long before the dying Mimi whimpered her last notes, first-nighters in Buenos Aires' Teatro Colón were sure it had a new star. When the crimson curtain finally fell on La Bohème, even hypercritical gallery-goers joined in the ovation for 22-year-old Soprano María Helena Arizmendi...
Puccini: La Bohème (Bidu Sayao, Richard Tucker, and others with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Giuseppe Antonicelli conducting; Columbia, 26 sides). No mistaking this for the Met; some nice singing, and a great deal that is ordinary, uneven and sometimes shrill. Recording: good...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Puccini's La Bohème, with Ferruccio Tagliavini, Bidu Sayao...
...Orchestra, Jean Paul Morel and Erich Leinsdorf conducting; Victor, 4 sides). Peerce and Warren too often sing vocal duels instead of duets. The album includes Solenne in Quest' Ora from Verdi's La Forza del Destino and Ah, Mimi, Tu Più from Puccini's La Bohème. Recording: good...
...second act of La Bohême, the cafe scene, where a cart filled with toys is dragged onstage, followed by laughing children. One of the kids was obviously more taken than the others by the singing of famed Metropolitan Basso Ezio Pinza, who was playing Colline. The admiration came naturally: it was his six-year-old daughter, Claudia...