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Though she yearned for the Metropolitan, Soprano Sills had to settle for the less prestigious New York City Opera, last fall sang two leading parts there (in Fledermaus and Golden Slippers). Last month with the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company she sang the lead in Montemezzi's The Love of the Three Kings, and likes to recall that she literally brought down the house; during her final exit, part of the ceiling collapsed. All that remained was for her to be discovered by a big-time impresario. She was. Luben Vichey, Met basso lately turned concert manager, took her under...
Even the middlebrow part of the catalogue is pretty dressy when a soprano of the stature of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf stars in Johann Strauss' Fledermaus...
Strauss: Wiener Blut (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Erich Kunz, Emmy Loose, Nicolai Gedda; Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus under Otto Ackermann; Angel, 3 sides of 2 LPs). Not so grand a ball as Die Fledermaus, Johann Strauss's masterpiece, this operetta is slighter but in spots even more delightful. A composite of Strauss music not originally written for the stage, the score is full of surprises: when sung, some of the waltzes and polkas take on a warbling charm they do not have as orchestra pieces alone. The libretto is preposterous, but offers linguists an unusually rich sampling of Viennese slang...
Bregenz, Austria (July 24-Aug. 15): large-scale concerts, ballet, drama and a gala performance of Die Fledermaus on a stage floating in Lake Constance...
...minute substitutions are something of a specialty with Roberta. She made her Met debut as a fillin, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, three years ago. Since then she has answered several other fire calls, including two for Gilda in Rigoletto (for Hilde Gueden and Genevieve Warner), one for Adele in Fledermaus (for Virginia MacWatters). But Soprano Peters is more than a high-class fireman...