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...Victor Show (Fri. 8 p.m., NBC). Ezio Pinza singing the death scene from Boris Godunov...
...basso, and he looked like a big one. But San Francisco operagoers, knowing that there are no great dramatic bassos around these days, sat back to listen in medium apathy. Next thing they knew, they were on the edge of their seats. Nicola Rossi-Lemeni was giving them Boris Godunov at the top of its style...
...they might not have seen but for him: the Met's first Abduction from the Seraglio of Mozart, the first Alceste of Gluck, Mussorgsky's Khovanchina. He had resurrected the dusty Marriage of Figaro (now one of the Met's best performances and biggest hits), Boris Godunov, Otello, Falstaff. He brought the best of Europe's singers to the Met, but he made his era the era of the American singer too: in this year's roster of 108 singers, more than half are U.S.-born...
...funeral dirge around a pyre they had built for themselves, first-nighters were still shaky on plot details. But critics and audience were agreed that they had been introduced to three hours of blood-Warm music which, with familiarity, might become as well liked as Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov...
Deep & Woolly. Although his parents were Russian immigrants, Montreal-born George London (real name Burnson) knew no Russian, never needed any until the Vienna Opera assigned him his biggest role. Last month, after studying hard, he sang a fine Boris Godunov-in the first full-dress performance ever sung in Russian by an American. It was his biggest hit yet. Even Vienna's senior critic, Heinrich Kralik, had to concede: "He is not yet Chaliapin, but he's very remarkable...