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...booming along comfortably in the role of Wotan, his voice began to fail. Edelmann withdrew at the end of Act II. He was replaced by Baritone Randolph Symonette, who lasted on stage for only four minutes. "It seemed to me like four hours," said shaken Conductor Erich Leinsdorf, later...
...apparent to Leinsdorf that Symonette "could not get any music out of his throat." When Symonette finally croaked out the line "Aus meinem Angesicht bist du verbannt" ("From my presence you are banished"), Leinsdorf ordered the curtain rung down...
After 11½ years with the prestigious Boston Symphony Orchestra, Music Director Charles Munch, 69, last week announced that he would retire following the 1962 Tanglewood season. Beamed his designated successor, Metropolitan Opera Conductor and Musical Consultant Erich Leinsdorf: "I have always considered the Boston the pinnacle of orchestras-it is very rare wine...
COMO PUCCINI: Turandot, Birgit Nilsson, Renata Tejussi Bjoeriling, Giorgio Tozzi Rome Opera House Or and Chorus conducted by Leinsdorf. RCA Victor LM ndot is Puccini's best and yet frustrating opera. "Best," be of the scope of its profound and dramatic characterize "Frustrating," because the touchstone, its final duet, not written by Puccini but one instead by a mediocre of his, Franco Alfano...
...Erich Leinsdorf elicits a stirring performance from the Rome Opera House Orchestra. The somewhat slow tempi he chose for the first act arias of Liu and Calaf seems to have proved a bit difficult even for Bjoerling and Tebaldi to sustain. But certainly the finale of that act becomes more effective at that pace. The Rome Opera House Chorus is positively magnificent; even their highest-lying passages in the second and third acts seem to pose no problem for them...