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...Scala performance in The Devil's Daughter (TIME, April 5), Mezzo-Soprano Rise Stevens made a pretty transatlantic commuter's picture as she landed at New York's International Airport, that same afternoon was on stage at the Metropolitan Opera to sing the title role of Carmen...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Carmen, with Stevens, Tucker, Guarrera...
Soprano Stevens was delighteu. "I wanted to do something new," she says, "and I wanted to do it at La Scala." She found the music modern but not radical; it gave her a chance to move about the stage in the tigerish fashion that has made her the favorite Carmen at the Met. But mounting a world premiere is no picnic, even for the vaunted Scala. The first dress rehearsal was disastrous, and in the five days before opening night opera officials and the stage-wise Stevens staff toiled 20 hours at a stretch, revising everything from scenery to dramatic...
...report of the "fiasco" of The Rake's Progress in its second season at the Metropolitan Opera [TIME, Feb. 8] underlines a circumstance that has long been obvious: Met audiences are not responsive to novelty, good or bad . . . The audiences, for the most part, prefer to listen to Carmen or Traviata for the hundred-and-umpteenth time. Or do they actually listen, even to their favorites? Isn't it rather a matter of going to the opera house to be pleasurably stroked, as it were, by a succession of familiar sounds...
...CARMEN ROGGERO Lima, Peru