Word: leonards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, at a performance of Verdi's La Forza del Destino, the first great ovation was reserved for Soprano Renata Tebaldi, making her first Met appearance of the season in the role of Leonora. But in the second act, Baritone Leonard Warren came on as Don Carlo and promptly mesmerized the great house in the famous duet with Tenor Richard Tucker as Don Alvaro. Later, dressed in the gold and black uniform of a Spanish grenadier, Warren soliloquized about his gravely wounded comrade-in-arms: "Morir! . . . Tremenda cosa!" ("To die! Tremendous thing!"). Finally he sang the great aria...
Crowding about the stage door later, they still seemed unable to believe that at 48, Baritone Leonard Warren was dead of a cerebral hemorrhage...
...High C. In his long career at the Met, Leonard Warren sang some 650 performances of 22 roles. He knew no German or French, nor did he sing Mozart in any language; he was largely limited to the big Italian works. But within that grateful range he created a whole gallery of careful portrayals infused with a passion and authority no baritone of his time could surpass...
These famous words, written by Bartolomeo Vanzetti shortly before his execution with Nicolo Sacco in 1927, may well be sung before long from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House-and quite an aria they would make for Leonard Warren or Giorgio Tozzi. Last week the Met announced that it has taken an option on a Sacco-Vanzetti opera by 55-year-old Composer Marc Blitzstein, to be written on commission from the Ford Foundation...
...York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts (CBS, 1-2 p.m.). For the second program of the series, Leonard Bernstein has invited a 14-year-old violinist, a 15-year-old cellist, and a nine-year-old narrator, who will accompany the orchestra in Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf...