Word: carusos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yves Montand on Broadway (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). The Caruso of the master bedroom sings Broadway show tunes and American folk songs in the company of such outstanding guest performers as Helen Gallagher and John Raitt...
...much about it that I know it thoroughly." Puccini, of course, knew no more about the American West than he knew about Japan when he wrote Madama Butterfly. But operagoers in 1910, when Fanciulla had its premiere at the Met, were no fussier than televiewers are today: with Caruso and Emmy Destinn in the leads, the premiere tied up traffic for hours near the opera house. The delighted Puccini celebrated by buying a $3,000 speedboat and naming it the Minnie. Neither the Minnie nor the opera enjoyed clear sailing: the speedboat had a collision on an Italian lake...
...striking exception: Johnson's "Ch'ella mi creda libero"), it had a score full of surgingly beautiful moments. The weakest links in the production were the cavernous sets, borrowed from the Chicago Lyric Opera; they looked for all the world as if they dated back to Caruso...
...population. Finding films to go with the stage show is the job of President-Managing Director Russell V. Downing, who freely admits that, since television has forced Hollywood to unbutton its themes, the Music Hall has had to change its standards. Its record moneymakers-The Great Caruso, Mister Roberts, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers-reflect the sort of choices the Music Hall once preferred, but now Downing is accepting gamier movies such as Parrish, Suzie Wong and Where the Boys Are, explaining his selections with the sequined rationalization that they reflect "a way of life...
...performance from Tenor Giuseppe Campora, the opera emerged at least in parts as the melodic masterpiece that the French have come to regard it (the Paris Opera-Comique has it in its regular repertory, as does La Scala). Outstanding were the fine tenor aria in Act I familiar to Caruso fans ("Je crois entendre encore"), the thunderous and majestic choral hymn of vengeance in Act II, a rhapsodic and haunting baritone aria...