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...agility and the feather-lightness of a much smaller voice. Her special glory is a legato line of floating, finespun phrases. A most demanding critic passed judgment on her voice when he heard it for the first time: it gave him goose pimples, said Conductor Herbert von Karajan...
...looking man with salt-and-pepper hair eating a club sandwich." Midway through the audition, the slim man abandoned his sandwich, excitedly pushed the accompanist aside and rushed Leontyne through Pace, pace mio Dio! from La Forza del Destino. "I then learned," says she, "that it was Herbert von Karajan...
Remembering the Carnegie Hall audition, Herbert von Karajan invited her in 1958 to make her European debut with the Vienna State Opera in Aïda. Since that triumphant evening, Leontyne and Von Karajan have enjoyed a kind of mutual-admiration pact. After Vienna, the road went speedily upward. In 1960 she walked through the stage door of La Scala (she had vowed never to enter as a tourist) and made her debut, again in Aïda, without a single stage rehearsal. "After all," she says, "what's the problem? The Nile can only be upstage." The crowd...
...grand opera in an NBC-TV production of Tosca, was soon making guest appearances with the San Francisco opera. But it was in Europe that her career really caught fire. She made her European debut in Aïda in 1958, at the Vienna Staatsoper under Herbert von Karajan, has since sung in most of Europe's leading houses, including La Scala. This year at the Met she will also appear in Aïda, Butterfly, Turandot and Don Giovanni. On hand to see her debut last week were many friends and neighbors from Mississippi, who remember Leontyne...
...singing, was later told that her voice was too frail for opera, and decided to become a concert singer. After her concert debut in 1950, she won a few operatic parts (Lucy in The Telephone, Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro), did not really get launched until Herbert von Karajan cast her in the role of Frasquita in a 1955 production of Carmen at La Scala. After that, Sciutti opened every season at La Piccola Scala (La Scala's intimate, 700-seat annex, specializing in rarely done or light operas). Elsewhere, she has shown her great versatility by singing...