Word: carlos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amahl and the Night Visitors (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Gian Carlo Menotti's opera about the lame shepherd boy who pledges his crutch to the infant Jesus has been a yearly joy since 1951 and may well be one in 2051; with Kirk Jordan as Amahl, Rosemary Kuhlman as his mother...
...topic in the opera world last week was the Callas fracas (see above), but there was other news, notably a new work by Gian Carlo Menotti and a new edition of two grand old operatic favorites...
...Scala in 1951 in which her voice broke twice on high notes. The audience of rabid Tebaldi fans "exclaimed in wonder and dismay," as she puts it, and Renata took to her room for two months. But with characteristic stubbornness, she then accepted an invitation from the San Carlo Opera in Naples to sing nine successive performances of Traviata, and earned nine successive ovations...
...writers in the world writing for me-guys like Verdi, Puccini, Bizet." For all his clowning, Merrill is a deadly serious artist who uses his peculiarly suave, resonant and firmly centered baritone to excellent effect, particularly in the roles Warren neglects-Carmen's Escamillo, The Barber Figaro, Don Carlo's Rodrigo...
...Siepi, 34, bass. Born in Milan, Siepi started out to be a boxer, switched to singing during the war, was brought to the U.S. by the Met's Bing. An excellent actor, he is particularly effective in the roles of such sorrowing old men as Boris and Don Carlo's Philip II, has also won acclaim for his Don Giovanni and The Barber's Basilio. His resonant, warm bass and trim good looks make him the leading contender for Ezio Pizza's place...