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...Sturdy American Baritone John Charles Thomas (Germont) saved a Traviata (with Vina Bovy and Nino Martini) from absolute mediocrity; dependable molasses-voiced Contralto Bruna Castagna (always affectionately regarded by Manhattan operagoers who knew her when she sang at the lowly Hippodrome) saved at least three operas (Samson et Dalila, II Trovatore, Norma) from a similar fate...
...premiere was to be Cimarosa's more-than-a-century-old Secret Marriage. Both operas are to be sung in English. Manager Johnson also plans revivals of such operas as Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, Wagner's Flying Dutchman, Saint-Saens's Samson et Dalila, Smetana's Bartered Bride (held over from last spring), Rimsky-Korsakov's Le Coq d'Or (for which Lily Pons spent this summer learning how to dance & kick), Mozart's Don Giovanni, Bellini's Norma...
...speech Communist hecklers who had been waiting since late afternoon in the 25? seats chorused: "Yellow dog La-Guardia! Yellow dog LaGuardia!" Three nights later the Stadium offered a novelty -the first of eight pairs of operas, with scenery and Metropolitan singers. Contralto Margaret Matzenauer as Saint-Saens' Dalila gesticulated as if she were suspended from invisible gymnasium rings, sang in a pleasantly intimate voice. Tenor Paul Althouse was Samson. Conducting was Russian-born Alexander Smallens of the Philadelphia Orchestra, who between acts bathed in a tin tub he brought with...
...added three camels, three elephants, eight horses to the Egyptian props. Impressive in the big concrete stadium will be vocal choruses, troupes of dancers, parades in full oriental pomp. Russian Diva Anna Lissetshaya will be Aida. National Broadcasting Co.'s Pasquale Rescigno will conduct. Later Samson et Dalila and Cavalleria Rusticana will be given. Then Im- presario Salmaggi will take his principals to Hartford, Providence, Chicago, Montreal ballparks, will present operas with the aid of local choruses, bands, dancers, animals...
Despite the excellence of the opening Samson et Dalila last week all was not well with Cincinnati's Zoo Opera. Contralto Marta Wittkowska expertly bewitched her Samson who was Tenor John Sample. He in turn tore down the pillars of the temple with all the fine frenzy of an injured beast. But uppermost in many a listener's mind stayed the thought that Cincinnati might not long have its summer Zoo performances. Manager Charles G. Miller sounded the warning before the season began. The Zoo is a private venture for which the late Mrs. Mary Emery...