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...years ago, Poleri got little attention in his own country until he made his debut in Manon at the New York City Opera this spring (TIME, April 2)-and had some listeners mentioning him in the same breath with Caruso. As Don Alvaro in Verdi's bloody La Forza del Destino last week, Poleri had the same kind of effect on Edinburgh. Wrote the critic of the London Daily Express: "The kind of tenor singing which an opera addict is lucky to hear once in five years...
Verdi: La Forza del Destine (Maria Caniglia, soprano; Ebe Stignani, mezzo-soprano; Galliano Masini, tenor; Tancredi Pasero, bass; Carlo Tagliabue, baritone, and others with the EIAR Symphony Orchestra and chorus, Gino Marinuzzi conducting; Cetra-Soria, 36 sides). Some of the singers made Verdi's less worthy opera sound far better than the Aïda. Recording: good...
Operatic Duets (Jan Peerce, tenor, Leonard Warren, baritone, with the RCA-Victor Orchestra, Jean Paul Morel and Erich Leinsdorf conducting; Victor, 4 sides). Peerce and Warren too often sing vocal duels instead of duets. The album includes Solenne in Quest' Ora from Verdi's La Forza del Destino and Ah, Mimi, Tu Più from Puccini's La Bohème. Recording: good...
...European distribution, is now for the first time released in the U.S. Its star: Arturo Toscanini, who (with Tenor Jan Peerce, the Westminster Choir and the NBC Symphony Orchestra) made this movie debut, for patriotic motives, free of charge. Content: Verdi's Overture to La Forza del Destino and Hymn of the Nations, the latter with revisions and interpolations by Toscanini. (He changed Italia, patria mia-Italy, my fatherland-to Italia tradita-Italy, betrayed, and climaxed the piece with the Internationale and The Star-Spangled Banner...
...brought her to the U.S. three months later. She knew neither Italian nor English. After ten harried weeks with an Italian tutor, she made her Met debut in Il Trovatore. Now she is the Met's first choice in such Italian operas as Aida, La Gioconda, La Forza del Destino and Norma. Of Norma, Mme. Milanov says proudly: "To sing it a woman must have had very big experience in life...