Word: giovanni
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soprano Regina Resnik sang the role of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at the Met while a detective watched from the wings. Nothing happened. The 25-year-old blonde had had anonymous threats from a woman she thought must be mad, since the threatener doubted Regina's ability to do justice to the role...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Don Giovanni, with Ezio Pinza...
...opera and the general management of the enterprise, but especially for his conducting. the orchestra, though not enormous made Mozart's superb instrumental passages stand out Sunday as they seldom do, with the winds particularly good; and the entire opera was done with real spirit and good humor. "Don Giovanni" and "Idomenco" are next on the list in this Mozartean year; Mr. Goldovsky's treatment of their more difficult problems is awaited with interest and confidence. J.A.L
Last week, Conductor Halasz, a slightly grey 42, faced his toughest test: Mozart's masterpiece, Don Giovanni. He had once helped Bruno Walter produce it in Salzburg, and had put it on himself in St. Louis. "Always before it is considered first of all music, second music, third music," he said. "Now, first of all, we try to make it a play...
What a standing-room-only audience saw one night last week was a fast-moving, well-sung, dramatic (if occasionally overplayed) Don Giovanni in two acts. With a stylized set, which was made to do for both indoor & outdoor scenes, Halasz simplified Don Giovanni's nine cumbersome scenes without sacrificing any of the music. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Critic Virgil Thomson: "The most distinguished piece of work all through that our city troupe has yet produced...