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FLAVIANO LABO, 31, an Italian-born tenor whose clear, powerful singing more than makes up for his lack of height (under 5 ft. 5 in.). He made his successful Met debut as Alvaro in Forza del Destino, and his Edgardo in last week's Lucia di Lammermoor had the house cheering. His secure, robust voice approaches the stentorian singing of Mario Del Monaco, although darker and not so piercing...
MARIO SERENI, a 29-year-old Italian born lyric baritone, has been properly praised for his fine, resonant voice and roasted for wooden acting. As Lord Hepry Ashton in Lucia di Lammermoor this season, he sang well, was no more notable for oaken attitudes than many other performers in an art form that pays little heed to Stanislavsky. While the Met, with Robert Merrill and Warren, has enough starring baritones, Sereni will be useful in such important feature roles as Marcello (Bohème) and Silvio (Pagliacci...
Scheduled to sing with the San Francisco Opera Company in Lucia and Macbeth, with thousands of tickets sold weeks in advance, Manhattan-born Soprano Maria Callas was reached in Milan, after days of trying via transatlantic telephone, announced on the eve of the opera season that she wanted to cut the number of performances, and postpone their dates. The temperamental diva was promptly fired...
...moved into Milan's La Scala and London-Decca into Florence's Teatro Co-munale. One of the busiest of all this year is Rome's cavernous Teatro dell'Opera, where RCA Victor is at work on new versions of Butterfly, Tosca, Orfeo and Lucia...
Born. To Jerome Hines (real name: Heinz), 35, handsome, towering (6 ft. 6½ in.) Metropolitan Opera basso, and Italian-born Soprano Lucia Evangelista, 34: their third child, third son; in Newark. Name: John Matthew. Weight...