Word: cosi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been scheduled for months to make her debut as the doomed Desdemona in the matinee of Verdi's Otello. When she told General Manager Rudolf Bing that she also would sing her new hit role of Fiordiligi in Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte the same night, Bing's eyebrows went up. "You must be crazy," he said...
Sirloin & Champagne. By 5:30, after an hour and 15 minutes of singing, she was back in her dressing room. She rested for half an hour, then downed a 1-lb. sirloin and a glass of champagne, while her hairdresser built up her pompadour for Cosi. After an hour's nap, she changed into hoop skirts, and adjusted her mind from the tragic 15th century Desdemona to the gaily artificial 18th century Fiordiligi. That done, she went to the piano, vocalized on scales for ten minutes, sang a few warm-up bars from Cosi. By curtain time...
...second half of her personal doubleheader, she sang one of the most technically difficult roles in opera, and sang it as cleanly and brilliantly as she had on Cosi's first night. At 11:30, after eight curtain calls, Soprano Steber got back to her dressing room and poured herself another glass of champagne...
...audiences "know the fine points of arias and give their applause with perception." Moreover, "the most beautiful voices in the world are here [in the U.S.] ... I have never heard a better Rigoletto than Leonard Warren, or a better Duke than Richard Tucker." And as for Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, a pride of the Vienna company, she now has the sad duty of breaking the word that the Met's new production (TIME, Jan. 7) is even better...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m. ABC). Cosi Fan Tutte, with Steber, Thebom, Munsel...