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Meanwhile, Central City doesn't mind being small and candidly experimental. The cost of producing four operas during a four-week season this year (the two one-acters plus Gounod's Romeo and Juliet, Donizetti's Don Pasquale) is budgeted at $110,000. Ticket sales will cover most of this; subscriptions and other activities (including the opera association's hotel and bar profits) should make up the rest. Last year's deficit...
Milan's La Scala has been going for 171 years. And for most of that time it has been one of the world's greatest opera houses. Its audiences had heard premieres of the operas of Donizetti, Bellini, Rossini, Meyerbeer, Verdi, Puccini. The greatest singers-Patti, Melba, Caruso, Chaliapin, Gigli-all graced its stage. From 1921 to 1929, under Arturo Toscanini, La Scala seemed to have reached a golden plateau. But last week even the proudest Milanese were admitting that something was very wrong with their great opera house...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore, with Bidu Sayao and Ferruccio Tagliavini...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, with Lily Pons, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Robert Merrill. Conductor: Pietro Cimara...