Word: debutitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MILDRED MILLER, sprightly, Cleveland-born soprano, who made her Met debut as Cherubino in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro a fortnight...
HILDE GUEDEN, Vienna-trained soprano, who made her Met debut a fortnight ago as the girlish Gilda in Rigoletto, and will sing her first Rosalinda in Fledermaus this week, with Patrice as Adele...
...Metropolitan Opera debut in La Boheme, Soprano Patrice Munsel found that the tabloids had headlined her in a real-life Fledermaus mixup. Ingenue leads: herself, and a coal-mine heiress named Sally Mundy. Male leads: Gregg Juarez, a sometime television actor, and Robert Schuler, a candy heir who shared the same apartment under an agreement that whoever married first would have his bride move in. Plot: Juarez falls in love with Munsel, Schuler with Mundy. Everyone decides this is a mistake, so they switch affections and engagements. Climax: denials on the part of everyone but Juarez. The whole story, they...
...biggest individual triumph belonged to young (30) U.S.-trained, Vienna-seasoned Bass-Baritone George London (TIME, Jan. 9, 1950), making his Met debut as Amonasro. The Herald Tribune's exacting Virgil Thomson reached deep into his accolade box for a proper one, decided that London "took his place among the greatest singing actors we have any of us known or remembered...
Margaret O'Brien won herself a new title in her stage debut last Monday night. Playing in Clare Booth Luce's "Child of the Morning," she proves herself not only the best sniveler in the movies, but the best sniveler in the theatre as well. In that capacity she is well fitted for the play, a sermon that should never have stumbled onto the stage...