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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...
Overheard. Trained in France and Italy, Edis made her debut in Vichy in Manon in 1937, came home to the U.S. when the war began. She sang in opera in the U.S. and Latin America, was in Mexico City recovering from an operation when she got her first break. She was practicing her scales in her hotel room when a Coca-Cola representative, attending a Rotary Club meeting in a room below, heard her and signed her for a two-year radio program...
...wonderful Thaïs." Hirsch was flummoxed. He had never heard of her, and he had taken Jacques Rouché's place, when Rouché was removed as a collaborator. "Does Madame suggest an audition?" asked Hirsch politely. "No," said Edis, "Madame suggests a rehearsal of Manon." She got the rehearsal, got the job, and in her Opéra-Comique debut in February got 13 curtain calls, a rarity in Paris...
...most interesting feature is the spectacle of an opera company in acute growing pains. London's historic Royal Opera House in Covent Garden has long been without a regular opera company, but the queues of eager customers buy out every performance of such old standbyes as "Carmen" and "Manon" weeks in advance...
Arie di Arie di Opere (Ferruccio Tagliavini with the Sinfonica dell' E.I.A.R., Ugo Tansini conducting; Cetra, 6 sides). The new hero of the Met's Italian fans (TIME, Jan. 20) sings arias from six operas (Mignon, Tosca, Rigoletto, The Barber of Seville, Manon, Elisir d'Amore). The Italian tempi are perhaps a little languid for U.S. tastes, but Tagliavini's contralto-like pianissimi are wondrously lyrical. The imported Italian discs (which cost a whopping $3.25 each) are technically as good as most U.S. recordings. Performance: excellent...