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Later performances of the week, Massenet's Manon and Bizet's Carmen, rested with the latterly feeble "French" contingent of the Metropolitan's forces which now consists almost exclusively of Americans, Australians, Brazilians, Italians, Belgians and Germans and produces a corresponding hash of styles...
...Metropolitan's most decorative recruit in years is Bidú Sayáo, slim, slick and 30, who turned up in Manhattan last spring to solo with the Philharmonic-Symphony and was quickly snapped up by the opera. Her debut as Manon was a triumph of personality as well as art. The little Brazilian used her little voice so that every phrase told. She tossed her pretty head, fell in and out of love, made Massenet's shallow, adorable wanton come to life. In La Traviata she was a higher-minded harlot, pathetically resigning her love...
...Violin Concerto will be played by Louis Krasner in its first American performances by the Boston Symphony Orchestra at this week's concerts. Berg, a disciple of the famous exiled German composer, Schoenberg, wrote this particular work while deeply affected by the death of one of his closest friends, Manon Gropius, the stepdaughter of Gustav Mahler. This concerto, while a requiem for her, is also the composer's swan-song for he died soon after. A great reputation has preceded this last effort of Berg, and it should prove significant...
There is nothing obscure about the theme, which is the masterly study by Dumas fils of a young girl who leaves the country for Paris, comes to love luxury and beautiful surroundings, and resorts willingly to free love as a means of achieving them. After the manner of Manon Lescaut, she sees no object in marriage even after Armand captures her heart and they spend an idyllic summer in the country at the expense of his chances to obtain a diplomatic position...
...21st floor of the Ritz Tower Hotel, where she collects coins, miniature paintings and small-sized dachshunds (she now owns 18), were not satisfied by her explanation that she wanted "the smell of the sawdust." But her future plans told more. This winter she hopes to make the opera Manon for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, to sing weekly for the Coca-Cola radio program, and next spring to be a guest artist at the Coronation Concerts in England...