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...year-old girls, or singers who stand in front of the prompter's box and do their daily dozen. They want acting. They want dramatic realism. Munsel and some others are representatives of a young generation of singers who are really singing actors." Patrice's manager, Sol Hurok, says with box-office candor: "You can listen with your eyes open...
Twenty years old and cute as a Powers model, blue-eyed Roberta Peters, daughter of a Bronx shoe salesman, had been hired last January after an audition. Impresario Sol Hurok had brought her to the Met after hearing her sing in her teacher's Manhattan studio. She was set to work on the coloratura role of the Queen of the Night in Mozart's Magic Flute, due for a Metropolitan Opera performance in early 1951. Like other neophytes at the Met, she spent the rest of her time attending classes in the Met's affiliated Kathryn Turney...
Word of a sensational new Spanish singer first began to drift across the Atlantic early last year; a 25-year-old raven-haired, camelia-skinned lyric soprano named Victoria de los Angeles, singing in opera and recital, had taken London and Paris by storm. Sharp-eared U.S. Impresario Sol Hurok investigated and joined the cheering section. Metropolitan Opera General Manager Rudolf Bing, who sailed for Europe last spring rather certain that his roster of leading sopranos was complete, changed his mind when he heard her. By last week, Soprano de los Angeles' first U.S. concert performance was just about...
Since the war, Vienna's State Opera has been the touring company of Europe. The U.S. has heard and applauded some of its stars, e.g., Soprano Ljuba Welitch and Baritone Paul Schoeffler. Now the company would like to show the U.S. all of its wares. Veteran Importer Sol Hurok is negotiating, but it looks as if the U.S. might still have to wait a while. Neither Hurok nor the Austrians are yet prepared to ship over an orchestra (the Vienna Philharmonic) of 113, a chorus of 106, singing principals, sets and chief stage hands...
...company was still in doubt about its second U.S. reception, there were other, more substantial assurances. Impresario Sol Hurok's office predicted a steady sellout through the company's three-week stay at the Met. After Manhattan, Sadler's Wells will set out on a four-month, 31-stop continental tour which has already piled up the biggest advance sale (more than $1,000,000) in American dance history...