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Meanwhile, Central City doesn't mind being small and candidly experimental. The cost of producing four operas during a four-week season this year (the two one-acters plus Gounod's Romeo and Juliet, Donizetti's Don Pasquale) is budgeted at $110,000. Ticket sales will cover most of this; subscriptions and other activities (including the opera association's hotel and bar profits) should make up the rest. Last year's deficit...
...beleaguered island of Rhodes, wanted very much to get his family back to Italy; six-year-old Anna cinched the airplane priority by piping Caro Nome for the island's military governor. At war's end she got showers of caramels from American G.I.s by warbling Gounod's Ave Maria...
When Anna-Lisa, still slim and pretty at 38, sang her first aria, from Puccini's Gianni Schicci, her bright-colored soprano was tight and quivering with nerves. It loosened up in arias from Gounod's Romeo and Juliet and Charpentier's Louise. By the time she had sung duets from La Boheme and Romeo with Jussi, she had proved she had something more than a talented amateur's equipment, if something less, after too many years away from public singing, than a professional way of using it. She would get a chance to correct that...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Gounod's Faust...
Maggie had put on her Faust with a lot of confidence. One old friend, Violinist Fritz Kreisler, told her, "You have put the pearls on a string." Most listeners found that they enjoyed the old pearls from Gounod's score more than they appreciated the new string-Poet Spender's often banal narration. But everyone agreed it was a bang-up show. Producer Maggie, who at 61 vows each year of singing on the concert stage will be her last, was happily thinking about taking her Faust on tour...