Word: carmens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bizet: Music from Carmen (New York City Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor, 8 sides...
...gypsy cigaret girl is more tawdry and brassy than she was in Stokowski's earlier Carmen recordings with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Performance: poor...
...while Baritone Duncan quietly practiced six operatic roles (Tonio in 7 Pagliacci, Escamillo in Carmen, Rigoletto, Germont in Traviata, the Ethiopian King in Aïda and Valentin in Faust). Last week his chance came-from New York's municipal, low-priced opera company, presided over by a self-conscious champion of race equality. Mayor F. H. LaGuardia. Todd Duncan made his debut in I Pagliacci, followed it two nights later with Carmen. Sympathetic audiences cheered him long. Critics were almost as loud in praise of his singing, hoped his acting would improve. Musically, LaGuardia's opera company...
...with a great deal of pleasure that we noticed the few lines mentioning the 63rd Division's version of Carmen in your Overseas issue of August...
...Carmen, billed as "a boilesk voishin," was written and directed by 21-year-old Corporal Fred Wiener, who also plays the title role. Wiener claims to have beaten Billy Rose to the punch . . . for he first did a burlesque version of the opera as an 8th grader at Portage Path School in Akron, Ohio...