Word: corena
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Puccini: Madame Butterfly (Anna Moffo, Cesare Valletti, Rosalind Elias, Renato Cesari. Fernando Corena; Rome Opera House Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf; RCA Victor, 3 LPs). A young cast attempts to filter the turgid dramatic tars so often found in Puccini's graceful "thread of smoke." as he called it. The result is a bright and bracing version, full of rarely realized charms. Soprano Moffo's Cio-Cio-San is vocally arresting, more woman than Japanese doll...
...horseback) glowed dimly through the iron grille of a crypt, like a sea creature in a grotto. Through the mellow moonlit streets moved the kind of cast only a great opera house could muster: Cesare Siepi, Eleanor Steber, Lisa Della Casa, Roberta Peters, Cesare Valletti, Giorgio Tozzi, Fernando Corena, Theodor Uppman, all in top form...
...acting was sometimes reminiscent of the reflex actions of a sleek cat rather than of a man willing to defy Heaven to enjoy earth. Soprano Steber presented a rich, blazing, gusty-voiced Donna Anna and Soprano Delia Casa an elegantly anguished Donna Elvira. And as Leporello, Basso Fernando Corena not only lurched and grimaced about the stage in convincing pantomime of a man clutching hard to his sanity but turned in some of the finest singing of the evening. In his first appearance at the Metropolitan, Viennese Conductor Karl Boehm, while distinctly slow-paced, achieved a fine balance between...
...Fernando Corena, as Don Pasquale, entered wearing a vivid green apron, for the Met staging makes him a passionate amateur gardener; he sang in a deeply resonant style that may ultimately restore their proper musical qualities to comic basso roles, long lost in mere boom-and-rasp renditions. Tenor Cesare Valletti sang with the sweetness and eloquence of a low-pressure Caruso. Pretty Coloratura Peters was expertly coquettish. Using her voice almost as if it were a tangible object, she tossed a trill to port, another to starboard, a third dead amidships of the great opera house...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Don Giovanni, with Siepi, Corena, Peters, Harshaw, Amara...