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Musically, nobody needed to worry. Coloratura Peters has a voice of exceptional purity and the kind of confidence and musicianship that critics like to call aplomb. Onstage for almost all of Figaro's 2½-hour performance, she skipped through Susanna's role without blowing a cue, delivered herself of some of the sweetest-sounding high notes to be heard anywhere. The packed audience loved her and the press next day agreed. "A direct hi., ' said the Daily News...
With Lily Pons singing less often (she sang the 100th Lucia of her career last month), and with Patrice Munsel dividing her time between the Met and her child, young Roberta is carrying a veteran's load of soubrette and coloratura roles...
...Every valley with accuracy and pleasant sound; although bass Irvin Nordquist lacked truly dark vocal color, his part remained dramatically exciting. Eunice Alberts, a little too restrained at first, improved after intermission, displaying her rich contralto tone and careful diction. Soprano Marguerite Willauer distinguished herself in both the intricate coloratura of Rejoice greatly and the more restrained line of the recitatives...
...evenings. Basso Rossi-Lemeni's commanding presence made it possible to schedule Mefistofele, Boris Godunov and Don Giovanni. Wagnerian Soprano Gertrude Grob-Prandl and Tenor Ludwig Suthaus were imported from Germany to do Tristan and Isolde and Die Walküre. At week's end, Italian Coloratura Contralto Giulietta Simionato and Tenor Cesare Valletti drew ovations in Massenet's rarely heard Werther. German Soprano Inge Borkh is on tap for Strauss's Elektra and Puccini's Turandot...
Televiewers on hand for the return of NBC's Your Show of Shows caught a new sister act in the making: the Metropolitan Opera's Coloratura Lily Pons and rubber-faced Comedienne Imogene Coca. Wearing sequined black lace and looking enough alike to be sisters, they kicked up their heels and scampered through a lusty, full-throated lampoon of Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe warbling When Love Goes Wrong in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes...