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Onstage, red-haired Bulgarian Soprano Ljuba (Salome) Welitch was singing her first Tosca at the Metropolitan, and it was as exciting and free-swinging a performance of Tosca as a Met audience had ever seen. Backstage, there was more excitement still. Whispered one anxious artist in a thick Italian accent: "Do you know the words to this For He's a Jolly Good Fellow?" Replied another: "I don't even know the melody." Nevertheless, when the curtain went down on Tosca, then up again on a gala pageant of recent Met history, every singer present seemed to roar...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Aida, with Ljuba Welitch, Ramon Vinay and Robert Merrill...
...opened and shut throughout the performance. John's severed head was a tame affair that looked more like a haggis: Dali's more horrifying head had been axed at the last minute by the censor. What delirium the audience felt was set off by redheaded Bulgarian Soprano Ljuba Welitch, who made a U.S. hit as Salome at the Metropolitan Opera last season. For eleven curtain calls she got cheers that rattled the railings in the standees' gallery. When short, tuxedoed Director of Productions Brook edged his way onstage, the bravos became boos. When Brook retreated smiling, Soprano...
Plump, red-haired Ljuba Welitsch, 35, was welcomed to the Met as a "curvaceous and arresting Salome" by the Met's onetime No. 1 glamor girl, retired Geraldine Farrar, 67. In a glowing fan letter to the New York Times, Miss Farrar took approving note of "such physical attributes as allow this singer to surmount. . . the terrific vocal demands . . ." She added pointedly: "No voice comes to full-bodied glory on a Hollywood diet, nor are lean thighs the safe caryatids upon which to rear the edifice of enduring and beautiful singing...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Verdi's Aïda, with Ljuba Welitsch...