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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). First U.S. broadcast of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, with Conley, Gueden, Thebom...
...Cambridge Committee was organized by Robert Conley '43 and Russell Peck '43, assistant dean at the Law School. Mayor Joseph E. DeGuglielmo '29 and former Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 will conduct the opening, and Borden Stevenson '55, the son of the Presidential candidate, has been invited to attend...
Last week Tenor Conley, 43, reached a peak in his career; he became the first American-born-and-trained singer ever to star at a La Scala opening. The opera: Verdi's Sicilian Vespers, a bloody tale of revolt of the Sicilians against the oppressing French, not heard at La Scala since...
...Conley was cast in the difficult role of the Sicilian patriot Arrigo, and at first his small but silvery tenor seemed hemmed in by the sumptuous sounds of Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas (also U.S.-born) and the rumbling bass of Bulgarian Boris Christoff. But by the second act his voice had warmed up, and so had the elegant and traditionally indifferent first-night audience. When the final curtain came down on the blood-bathed stage, Milanese were shouting "Conelay, Conelay" from their carnation-decked boxes...
...critics overlooked a boggled high note in the first act, and poured compliments on Conley's singing-but not on his bandy-legged acting. Milan's Il Tempo: "Conley has again proved his excellent vocal technique, his facility in moving among the highest notes," but, added Rome's Il Tempo, "beside [Soprano Callas] he appeared more her page than her promised." L'ltalia found his high notes "bell-like and sure," but his movements "uncertain and indefinite." The Communist L'Unità snarled at his "atrocious pronunciation, insupportable to the Italian ear." But even...