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...waiting music" that introduces the third act of Madame Butterfly. In the pit of Chicago's Civic Opera House, Conductor Laszlo Halasz turned to the first-violin section of his New York City Opera Company orchestra to urge them on. Few in the audience noticed what happened next, but it made the most controversial musical mystery of the week...
...part of the loving, pleasure-mad, 18th Century Manon. What she lacked in artfulness, her gallant and unhappy lover made up in charm and ardor. As the Chevalier des Grieux, young (27) Philadelphia-born Tenor David Poleri turned out to be one of the finds of the season. Laszlo Halasz, director of City Opera, heard Poleri last fall on a Chicago radio show. Handsome Poleri sang Des Grieux as if he had learned it straight from Caruso; his voice, less powerful and assured, is sweeter, lighter in color. He acted his part as if he were born...
...York City Opera's smart Director Laszlo Halasz was feeling pretty pleased with the repertory of his crack little company. Mozart was well taken care of, with bright, fast-paced productions of The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni. So were the French, with Carmen and Faust, and the Italians, with Aida, La Boheme, Tosca, La Traviata. There was only one cloud in an otherwise sunny sky, but that one was a thunderhead: Wagner. Last week, with the help of an old Wagnerian, Halasz dissipated...
...freed after serving almost two years in prison, was stripped of his clerical rank by a special church court. Last week, Hungary's Lutheran Church took another step toward surrender to the Red state by choosing an avowed supporter of the Communist regime to succeed Ordass. He was Laszlo Dezsery, 36, who had made his stand amply clear when two years ago he denounced his fellow pastors as "slaves of the reactionaries...
...first New York performance of Turandot in 20 years, City Opera's Director Laszlo Halasz had reached all the way into Yugoslavia to find a soprano, the Zagreb Opera's buxom, dark-haired Dragica Martinis, 29, who could, and would, sing the cold, high-ranging and ungrateful title role...