Word: gildas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
Downes cheering. The whole critical fraternity joined in bravos for another debutante: pretty, golden-haired Viennese Soprano Hilde Gueden, who pinpointed Gilda's top notes as gracefully as she did Gilda's girlish character...
...Tito Gobbi, in the title role, is likely to make a lasting impression on the spectator. In both his sound and his fury, he is a thrill to hear and see. All of the other parts are well done; notably Anna Maria Canali as Maddalena and Marcella Govini as Gilda. I feared for a while that Miss Govini was a follower of the still-flourishing Jeanette MacDonald School of Cinema Singers--those unique actresses who manage somehow to sing through their teeth (or porcelain caps, as the case may be) and whose little tummies are never seen to be heaving...