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...well-to-do members of the local Italian colony took the singers into their home, fed them spaghetti, baked veal and red wine. Tenor Galliano Masini, onetime member of New York's Metropolitan Opera Company, ran around the table, punctuating his protests with bars from Tosca and Carmen. Said he: "After Caruso's death they said I was the one. Tagliavini (see below') is a good tenor but light. I am disgusted. I want to sing." The Chicago Tribune's captious Critic Claudia Cassidy interviewed Basso Nicola Rossi Lemeni by telephone, had him sing...
...last week The Fairy Queen had established Covent Garden's opera as a business; now it had only to succeed as an opera company. Next week, as its first real opera, Covent Garden scheduled Carmen...
There are also new records or albums by Zinka Milanov, Jan Peerce, Licia Albanese, Ezio Pinza and Alexander Kipnis, all of them first rate; and a Carmen album with Gladys Swarthout, which...
Breaking all records for dullness of plot, static action, and generally bad performances, the latest issuance from the gloomy den of the Twentieth Century foxes is one of the most puerile movies ever to mesmerize a squirming audience. Newly blonde Vivian Blaine, Adler-elevated Perry Como, and hat-heavy Carmen Miranda stumble through ninety confused minutes of political campaigns and corny musical numbers untempered by the inclusion of Harry James' fine trumpet and the funny gags of Phil Silvers. "If I'm Lucky" is a sleepy picture that certainly does not deserve its feature spot on the program...
Your review of the French-dialogued, made-in-Italy Carmen [TIME, Dec. 2] mentions "Escamillo's smugglers." Unless this particular movie scrambles Mérimée, Bizet and all traditional Carmens, you must be scrambling the Gypsy Girl's boy friends. "Garcia's smugglers" maybe, or even "Don Josè's smugglers," but surely Escamillo still sticks to his bull ring...