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Most of the oldtimers in the audience had sung with De Luca during the 20 years when he was one of the Met's great baritones. With Jeritza, De Luca had sung Carmen, with Alda, La Bohéme, and with Rethberg and Martinelli, Il Trovatore. When the Met's new manager, Edward Johnson, was approved in 1935, he did not renew De Luca's high-salaried contract. Throughout the war, De Luca was in Italy. His 30-room villa was untouched by bombs which flattened the house of his neighbor, Virginio Gayda, Mussolini's press...
...supple, medieval and modern, simple and complex. For almost three decades he has been a man of violence and inquisitorial intolerance. He hunts wild boars and rojos ("reds," meaning practically all political opponents) with equal intensity. Yet he has seldom failed to say a nightly rosary with his wife Carmen and daughter Carmencita (now 19). His most frequent prayer is: "Lord who entrusted Spain to my hand, do not deny me the grace of handing you back a Spain which is truly Catholic...
Bizet: Symphony in C Major (Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia, 7 sides). The composer of Carmen was 17 when he wrote his only symphony, and obviously a student of Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and Rossini, all of whom have their innings in the score. Performance: fair...
...Metropolitan Opera was putting on its first matinee of the season for high-school students-and, incidentally, giving promising 23-year-old Fiorenza Quartararo a chance to rehearse Carmen with the orchestra. No critics were expected. But the New York Times's Howard Taubman dropped in. He came away singing the praises, not of Rise Stevens' Carmen, but of Fiorenza's Micaela. Wrote he: "Astonishing assurance . . . true lyric quality . . . affecting simplicity. . . . Miss Quartararo, who is also good to look at, seems to have what it takes. . . . She may be the find of the season...
...Love, the "beloved" is shot, hung and poisoned. His Blue Danube is Wayne King schmalz - plus four strategically placed belches. On the Jones agenda are a poke at Polonaise, called Chopin's Mayonnaise; a lampoon of Xavier Cugat called Benzedrine Beguine, and a new version of Carmen. Spike is eager to try his most ambitious experiment: a section of cellos playing under water. He hasn't yet figured...