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Sopranos Lucrezia Bori, Alma Gluck, Lily Pons, Rosa Ponselle, Luisa Tetrazzini; Tenors Richard Crooks, Tito Schipa; Baritone Antonio Scotti; Basso Feodor Chaliapin; Pianist Josef Hofmann...
Conductors are as important as jockeys, and Bruno Walter, a successful guest conductor last season, led a sweetly stirring performance of Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice. Another great opera man. Sir Thomas Beecham, will be in the saddle for Carmen, Le Coq d'Or and Bach's Phoebus and Pan. The Met had planned to shake up its two Italian veterans, Gennaro Papi and Ettore Panizza, giving to each some operas that the other had been leading. But just before last week's Traviata, Signor Papi dropped dead of heart disease. Panizza took his place...
...this summer. Central City, onetime bonanza town in the mine-scarred mountains west of Denver, had come briefly to life during the annual Play Festival in its 63-year-old, stonewalled Opera House. This year the festival is operatic. The summer's operas, scheduled for 25 performances, are Gluck's classic Orpheus and Eurydice and Rossini's comic Barber of Seville...
...Gluck: Ballet Suite No. 1 (arranged by Felix Mottl) (Boston "Pops" Orchestra conducted by Arthur Fiedler; Victor; 4 sides; $2.50). Stately dances by periwigged Composer Gluck, in a recording as cool and sparkling as jellied soup...
...There were a "novelty" (Gluck's Alceste) and eight operatic "revivals," some of them works which had been out of the repertory a mere three or four years. Best were those conducted by Bruno Walter: Mozart's Don Giovanni, Beethoven's Fidelio...