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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5 p.m., ABC). World premiere of Bernard Rogers' and Norman Corwin's The Warrior, with .Baritone Mack Harrell, Soprano Regina Resnik. Also, Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel, with Soprano Rise Stevens, Soprano Nadine Connor, Baritone John Brownlee...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Humperdinck's prelude to Hänsel und Gretel, Schumann's Third Symphony, Kodály's Dances of Galanta. Conductor: Fritz Reiner...
...fans in its last appeal for help. Curious to know its radio fans' taste in opera, the Met asked 123,000 of them to pick their favorite operas. The choices: 1) A'ida, 2) Carmen, 3) La Traviata. Among operas less frequently heard, listeners picked Hansel and Gretel, Boris Gudunov, and Der Rosenkavalier. (The Met promised to broadcast all six next year.) Notably unchosen: Wagner...
Failure & Success. "She effaces the memory of stouter prima donnas," wrote one critic during Maggie Teyte's barnstorming years with the Chicago Opera, the Boston and La Scala Opera Companies. Her favorite roles as Melisande in Pelleas and Melisande, Hansel in Hansel und Gretel, set off her charms to best advantage. Photographs of Maggie Teyte in knickers and sleek satin gowns with gold slippers were treasured items in the dens of U.S. dudes. Women crowded counters for "Maggie Teyte Perfume." But when she failed to snare a Metropolitan contract, Maggie Teyte shrewdly decided that her clear-toned, brilliantly controlled...
...buoyancy makes it a fitting holiday release. It is the sort of stuff Leopold Stokowski is good at, and his performance is full of Stokowskian gorgeousness, brilliance, and color, which at the same time sacrifices a good deal of Dukas's subtlety. Refreshing are the excerpts from Hansel and Gretel, that most magic of all operas. Barlow and the Columbia Broadcasting Orchestra play with feeling most of your favorites, including the dream music, on Columbia Records, and if I were to get any synthesis of any opera, this would be it. But the prize orchestral recording of the Christmas season...