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...Opera actually seemed more interested in the opera than in itself. The reason, as Variety reported, was that the company had "put its best tonsil forward." The chosen 4,000-who had paid a record $59,961 admission, with orchestra seats at $30-heard as fine a Forza del Destino as modern Metgoers could remember...
...Bing, Metropolitan Opera fans have come to take handsome new productions for granted. Last week, determined not to disappoint, Bing & Co. were putting the last loving touches to one of their most ambitious projects yet: a completely restyled version of Verdi's 90-year-old La Forza del Destino (The Force of Destiny...
...Poleri got little attention in his own country until he made his debut in Manon at the New York City Opera this spring (TIME, April 2)-and had some listeners mentioning him in the same breath with Caruso. As Don Alvaro in Verdi's bloody La Forza del Destino last week, Poleri had the same kind of effect on Edinburgh. Wrote the critic of the London Daily Express: "The kind of tenor singing which an opera addict is lucky to hear once in five years...
...force her to leave." Said a young Lima matron: "The dean is right. Her daughters are pretty and that is likely to make people talk." At week's end, after receiving a cash indemnity, the lady bellringer was turned out of her rooms. Said Felicitas : "It is el destino. And when that is against you, you can cry yourself blind. It is not easy for a pregnant woman to find a job. I only hope it is not a girl this time. Day and night I pray the Lord to give me a second...
Operatic Duets (Jan Peerce, tenor, Leonard Warren, baritone, with the RCA-Victor Orchestra, Jean Paul Morel and Erich Leinsdorf conducting; Victor, 4 sides). Peerce and Warren too often sing vocal duels instead of duets. The album includes Solenne in Quest' Ora from Verdi's La Forza del Destino and Ah, Mimi, Tu Più from Puccini's La Bohème. Recording: good...