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Bidu Sayao: Celebrated Operatic Arias (with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fausto Cleva conducting; Columbia, 8 sides). With the help of recording engineers, who build up her graceful little voice, Brazil's Bidu comes through handsomely. The eight arias are mostly from the roles (in Manon, La Bohème) which made Sayao famous at the Met. Performance: good...
Pert, red-haired little Bidu Sayao was born into one of Rio's wealthiest families 39 years ago. She made her debut at Manhattan's Metropolitan in 1937, became famed for her slight-voiced but lyrically graceful Manon, Mimi (in La Bohème) and Meéisande...
...Opera (Sun. 7 p.m., Mutual). All-French program, in honor of Bastille Day. Arias from Meyerbeer's L'Africaine, Massenet's Manon, Bizet's The Pearl Fishers, Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, Gounod's Faust...
Three days earlier 57-year-old Tito Schipa (pronounced skeepa) made his first operatic appearance outside the Axis belt since he left the Metropolitan in 1941. He did Manon at the Opera-Comique. Next fall Schipa plans to make a U.S. concert tour. Schipa is defiant of reporters who want to make something of his wartime singing in Italy. Says he: "I am no Communist! I am no Fascist! I sing good and Mussolini give me a medal! So what...
...guidance, Ways and Researcher Manon Gaulin, daughter of a U.S. consular official, who knows France like a native after many years of residence and work there, got off a long cable explaining their view of the story and warning Paris that almost all the facts would have to come from there because the information available in the U.S. was of doubtful value...