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Singers: Sopranos Lucine Amara, Mary Curtis-Verna, Gloria Davy, Leontyne Price, Eleanor Steber; Mezzo-Sopranos Nan Merriman and Regina Resnik; Contralto Jean Madeira; Tenors David Lloyd, Jan Peerce. Richard Tucker; Baritones George London, Robert McFerrin and William Warneld...
...opera official. "That's exactly the kind of girl wre're looking for to sing Carmen," he said to his companion. "Pity she's not a singer." Said his companion, a friend of Vera's: "But she is-and besides she's a mezzo." Next day Soprano Little flew to West Berlin to audition for brilliant Opera Director Carl Ebert (TIME, Jan. 24, 1955), was hired to sing the title role in his new production of Carmen...
ROSALIND ELIAS, 25, a dark-eyed mezzo-soprano, is slender enough to play the boy Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, provocative enough to goad her stage lovers convincingly to swordplay, as she did as Olga in Eugene Onegin. A Lebanese-American born in Lowell, Mass., she began singing the Metropolitan's smallest roles four years ago, rose to starring parts through a combination of good looks (she is the Met's youngest, prettiest leading singer) and a warm, full-timbered voice. Her latest success: Erika in Samuel Barber's Vanessa (TIME, Jan. 27). Although a good...
...first U.S.-born Metropolitan Opera prima donna ever to sing in the U.S.S.R., Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom, came home with some wide-eyed observations about Soviet singers, recollections of a visit to a Kremlin museum, laurels from Moscow critics and audiences for wowing them with their sexiest Carmen ever. "We could learn from Russian musicians about colleague behavior," said Blanche without blanching visibly. "Tantrums and jealousy don't seem to exist in musical circles, and the tenors were so wonderfully flattering that they all forgot their lines in the love scenes...
...dance that night. Despite major obstacles-including a Texas chorus that had a lot of trouble learning to sing in Italian-the production turned out to be topnotch, with bright sets, smooth and funny staging. The cast, mostly imported and mostly unknown in the U.S. (except for brilliant Mezzo-Soprano Giulietta Simionato). had been so ably picked by Impresario Kelly that the total effect surpassed the Met's memorable Don Pasquale, something of a standard for opera buffa. Said one opera veteran: "As of today, Dallas is on the map as an opera town along with New York...