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...production is wonderful--fast and beautiful and marvelously ingenious. And so is the supporting cast, especially Myron McCormick as Luther and Betta St. John as Liat. And so is Ezio Pinza, whose voice is such a miracle that it probably does not matter that the words he lavishes it on cannot be understood...
...Metropolitan Opera's brawny glamor boy, Basso Ezio Pinza, who has long had his eye on Hollywood,* took a step in that direction: he announced that he would play the lead in Rodgers & Hammerstein's new Broadway musical next winter...
When one thinks of Don Giovanni, the lady-killing Spaniard, one invariably also thinks of Ezio Pinza, in whose hands the Met's production of Mozart's opera has become a perennial success. Thursday evening was no exception: the Opera House was packed to the ceiling and Pinza stole the show. Or rather, Pinza made the show. It was unfortunate that with the exception of the rotund buffoonbass Salvatore Baccaloni, who sang Leporello, the supporting cast did not quite click. Charles Kullman as Don Ottavio gave an adequate performance of some of the best music of the opera...
...Civic Opera House for a one-night stand; the 4,200 seats and standing room had been sold out for two weeks, and 3,000 ticket-buyers had been turned away. (It was no trouble at all to get seats in advance for the Metropolitan Opera's famed Ezio Pinza that afternoon...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Don Giovanni, with Ezio Pinza...