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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Fledermaus, with Munsel, Resnik, Kullmann...
...that she has established herself as the Met's ranking soubrette, Patrice's work is pretty well cut out for her. This season, in addition to eight Adeles in Fledermaus and three Musettas in Bohème, she will get a coveted role in the Met's new, English-language production of Mozart's Cosí Fan Tutte, as Despina the maid, who decoys her mistresses into affairs with two rich Albanians, masquerades as a quack physician, and generally moves the whole plot around...
With stage directors, she has the same serious, hard-working approach. Garson Kanin, who directed Fledermaus, suggested that a splendid effect could be achieved if Pat could hold an A while climbing a flight of steps, ending it dramatically as she reached a balcony. Oh no, said Pat, "that would be practically impossible." But when Kanin arrived for rehearsal next day, he found her standing at the foot of the steps, biting her lip and concentrating. Then she ran up the stairs, high-noting it all the way. She doubted whether she could do the same thing in costume...
HILDE GUEDEN, Vienna-trained soprano, who made her Met debut a fortnight ago as the girlish Gilda in Rigoletto, and will sing her first Rosalinda in Fledermaus this week, with Patrice as Adele...
...European musician describes her thus: "Fairly tall, slender, and has a pleasant horse face, like a clean-cut American college girl." And Europe has heard better voices. But everyone likes life-and Patrice Munsel has a lot of that. Among other things, she would like to try her Fledermaus Adele-in German-on the Viennese...