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...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Verdi's La Traviata (second half), with Licia Albanese, Jan Peerce, Robert Merrill. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Verdi's La Traviata (first half). Soloists: Soprano Licia Albanese, Tenor Jan Peerce, Baritone Robert Merrill. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini...
...studio audience. He lined up his cast of soloists (mostly Met stars) before the mikes like an old-fashioned singing class, so that he could keep a sharp eye and a firm baton on them. Tenor Jan Peerce, in the first act's duet with Soprano Licia Albanese, closed on a lower E (as Puccini wrote it) instead of the flashier high C he likes to exit on at the Met. Surprise star of the show was Toscanini's 20-year-old soprano find, Anne Me Knight (TIME...
Then she told how it all happened. Toscanini, who had conducted the world premiere of Puccini's La Bohème in Turin in 1896, was to perform it again, on its 50th anniversary, over NBC. He had picked the Met's Licia Albanese for Mimi, Jan Peerce for Rodolfo. For the second feminine lead (Musetta) he had tried out 30 women, was satisfied with none. Then Met Conductor Wilfred Pelletier, who teaches at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, suggested a 20-year-old, plump, black-haired pupil of his, who so far had sung only...
...Married. Licia Albanese, 31, plump, handsome Metropolitan Opera soprano; and Joseph A. Gimma, 37, Wall Street stock broker, also from her native Bari, Italy (although they met in Manhattan in 1940); both for the first time; in Manhasset, L.I. The bride confessed that she was heeding the marriage-v.-career advice of an ex-opera star friend: "Our art is ... only temporary. All of a sudden one day it will be gone, and then you'll be sorry you didn't marry...