Word: jussi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Warehouse. Two nights later, Met-goers saw the first performance in 19 years of Puccini's Manon Lescaut. In front of new sets that were hardly more imaginative than any of the Met's old ones, great Lyric Tenor Jussi Bjoerling and Soprano Dorothy Kirsten sang like opera stars, but acted in the old arm-flailing tradition that has long been the curse of the opera stage. The first matinee was a revival, after nine years in the warehouse, of Saint-Saëns' Samson and Delilah. As a vehicle for Dramatic Tenor Ramon Vinay, the strong...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Guest soloist: Tenor Jussi Bjorling...
...feathers, were traditionally no fair test of the Met's ability. As the week wore on, critics found some things to applaud more heartily: the season's first Götterdammerung, the sound and spirit of Conductor Wilfred Pelletier's orchestra in Mignon, Cloe Elmo and Jussi Bjoerling's Il Trovatore, and the excitement of Tenor Ferruccio Tagliavini's L'Elisir D'Amore...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Verdi's Il Trovatore, with Cloe Elmo, Stella Roman, Jussi Bjoerling, Leonard Warren...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5:25 p.m., ABC). Gounod's Romeo et Juliette, with Soprano Bidu Sayao, Tenor Jussi Bjoerling...