Word: ferruccio
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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Puccini's La Bohème, with Ferruccio Tagliavini, Bidu Sayao...
...Thomas Beecham, white-bearded British conductor who likes to distribute pieces of his mind, arrived in Manhattan with Lady Beecham. He was as generous as ever. Sir Thomas, 68, on Italy's eight-year-old Conductor Ferruccio Burco, who had arrived for a U.S. tour a few days before: "Who is responsible for this outrage? . . . Where are your police? The boy should be in kindergarten sucking a lollipop."* On musicians generally: "Musicians have no reason to be stuffy. I've seen an orangutan play the flute." On the state of things: "The world is drifting into barbarism...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, with Lily Pons, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Robert Merrill. Conductor: Pietro Cimara...
Metropolitan Operagoers had heard and cheered Italian Tenor Ferruccio Tagliavini as no other new Met star had been cheered since before the war (TIME, Jan. 20, 1947). Last week they heard his wife too; the critics applauded discreetly, but they did no cheering...
...conventional stage production modified by equally conventional movie devices. It is good to see singers at close range when they are as engaging to look at as most of these Italian opera stars. All of them are more than adequate within their tradition, notably the Metropolitan's Ferruccio Tagliavini (the Count), handsome Tito Gobbi (the Barber), the smoothest actor, and Comedian Italo Tajo who, as the guardian's villainous henchman, suggests a demented Lionel Barrymore...