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Mussorgsky: Boris Godunoff (Ezio Pinza and the Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus, Emil Cooper conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). Most listeners will probably prefer Kipnis' fine Russian version (TIME, June 4) to Pinza's Italian. Performance: good. Recording: good...
...Death of Virgil, Hermann Broch's most important novel since The Sleepwalkers took the intelligentsia by storm in 1932. Author Broch was already at work on The Death of Virgil when he fled to the U.S. from his native Austria in 1938. That same year Novelist Ezio Taddei, an Italian anarchist, climbed the Alps and escaped to France and the U.S., after 18 years in Fascist prisons. His new novel, The Pine Tree and the Mole, is a study of Italian society some 2,000 years after Virgil's death. In both books the theme is the tortured...
...tour, as well as in the Met's big, money-making Manhattan season, the traditional enthusiasm for Verdi and Wagner was being challenged by an increased popular demand for the lighthearted operas of Mozart. Many suspected that this de mand for Mozart was really a demand for Ezio Pinza - the brawny, lusty-voiced, 52-year-old basso who sings the Mozart scores to a fare-ye-well. As Don Giovanni, Figaro and Sarastro (in The Magic Flute} the former Italian bicycle racer had be come the Met's most reliable attraction...
...Newcomers. Last week both claque and audience found several things worth applauding. One was the singing of the great Italian bass, Ezio Pinza; as Mephistopheles and as Don Giovanni, he proved again that he is the Metropolitan's brightest star. Another was the expert conducting of Hungarian-born George Szell, who, since the departure of Sir Thomas Beecham and Bruno Walter, is the Met's finest maestro. During the opening week six young U.S. singers made their first Metropolitan appearances. Of them, the likeliest future headliners seemed...
...Ezio Pinza, Metropolitan Opera star, took precautions against dog homesickness as he handed his Dalmatians, Boris and Figaro, over to Dogs for Defense. With the dogs, long accustomed to his house-filling basso, he sent records of their master's voice...