Word: elisir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...critics found some things to applaud more heartily: the season's first Götterdammerung, the sound and spirit of Conductor Wilfred Pelletier's orchestra in Mignon, Cloe Elmo and Jussi Bjoerling's Il Trovatore, and the excitement of Tenor Ferruccio Tagliavini's L'Elisir D'Amore...
Arie di Arie di Opere (Ferruccio Tagliavini with the Sinfonica dell' E.I.A.R., Ugo Tansini conducting; Cetra, 6 sides). The new hero of the Met's Italian fans (TIME, Jan. 20) sings arias from six operas (Mignon, Tosca, Rigoletto, The Barber of Seville, Manon, Elisir d'Amore). The Italian tempi are perhaps a little languid for U.S. tastes, but Tagliavini's contralto-like pianissimi are wondrously lyrical. The imported Italian discs (which cost a whopping $3.25 each) are technically as good as most U.S. recordings. Performance: excellent...
With the help of three-inch elevated shoes, Tito Schipa looked all of five-feet-five last week at Paris' Salle Pleyel. When he sang L'Elisir d'Amore and Don Giovanni he brought the house down. He gave so many encores that for a while it seemed that only firehoses could send the cheering mobs home...