Word: manon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Puccini's Manon Lescaut...
...Warehouse. Two nights later, Met-goers saw the first performance in 19 years of Puccini's Manon Lescaut. In front of new sets that were hardly more imaginative than any of the Met's old ones, great Lyric Tenor Jussi Bjoerling and Soprano Dorothy Kirsten sang like opera stars, but acted in the old arm-flailing tradition that has long been the curse of the opera stage. The first matinee was a revival, after nine years in the warehouse, of Saint-Saëns' Samson and Delilah. As a vehicle for Dramatic Tenor Ramon Vinay, the strong...
First-nighters at the San Francisco Opera Company's flossy opening night blinked at an unprecedented sight: Jimmy ("Schnozzola") Durante making his debut in an opera audience. As Manon Lescaut wore on, Durante complained to a companion: "I can't understand a thing they're saying-is the acoustics bad in here?" During intermission, Durante reported later, he rubbed elbows with socialites. "I had to rub elbows," he explained. "Nobody would shake hands with...
...join the army of General Venustiano Carranza. She became a nurse. Dressed in a green uniform cut from the curtains of a Pullman car, she rode through the Mexican Revolution on a grey hospital train under the watchful eye of a veteran head nurse named Leonor Villegas de Manon...
Rome's operagoers remember Giuseppe Di Stefano as the handsome young tenor who sang Manon one night when terrible-tempered Tenor Lauri-Volpi fitfully refused to go on. But even before that, Di Stefano had gotten ovations that reached the ears of U.S. booking agents...