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...Mimi, which she has sung at La Scala, Mirella Freni, 29, an Italian lyric soprano of talent and beauty, can hold her own with Tebaldi, De los Angeles and Moffo. Her voice is easy and focused, but her particular strength as the little seamstress is her touching youthfulness. Tenor Ni colai Gedda is equally melodious and moving as her lover. Thomas Schippers conducts the Rome Opera House Orches tra and Chorus impetuously but artfully...
...beginning, Soprano Leontyne Price sounds outsized, more like Lilith than a simple gypsy, but the opera soon rises to her voltage. Tenor Franco Corelli manages a convincing disintegration as Don Jose, and Baritone Robert Merrill's Escamillo exudes male vanity. Mirella Freni makes a sweet-voiced Micaela. Conductor Herbert von Karajan colors the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra sensuously, generally keeping the tempos down and the temperature up; the smugglers' quintet reaches a high pitch of excitement...
FALSTAFF (RCA Victor). With a princely cast that includes Geraint Evans, Giulietta Simionato, Mirella Freni and Rosalind Elias, Verdi's masterwork is sung better than ever before on records. But Conductor Georg Solti does not live up to the Falstaff achieved by Arturo Toscanini in his famous 1950 recording. His beat is too rigid to be helpful to his singers...
...dance committee includes the following: Robert F. Dine '37, Dominic R. Freni '36, Fred P. Glike '37, L. B. Hunter '37, Austin Ivory 2GB, and James L. Morrison...
...meeting of the Pierian Sodality of 1808 last night, the following men were elected officers for the coming year: Dominic R. Freni '36 of Roslindale, President; Frederick P. Glike '37 of Meriden, Connecticut, Vice-President; Lemuel B. Hunter '37 of Wellesley Hills, Secretary; Robert F. Dine '37 of Allston, Treasurer; and William V. Smith '37 of Medford, Librarian...