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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5:25 p.m., ABC). Verdi's Il Trovatore, with Soprano Zinka Milanov, Contralto Margaret Harshaw, Tenor Kurt Baum, Baritone Leonard Warren...
There are also new records or albums by Zinka Milanov, Jan Peerce, Licia Albanese, Ezio Pinza and Alexander Kipnis, all of them first rate; and a Carmen album with Gladys Swarthout, which...
...composer-critic Virgil Thomson went all out last week. He had just heard, he wrote, a voice "with a beauty that is unmatched among the sopranos of this country." The accolade went not to one of the seven singers making their debuts this season, but to bosomy Yugoslav Zinka Milanov, singing Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni for about the 20th time. Just five days earlier, another Trib critic had panned her. Wrote he: "[Her] decrease in avoirdupois [has] brought with it a disturbing lessening of her powers...
Such critical contradictions are an old familiar song to green-eyed, red-haired (dyed), 38-year-old Mme. Milanov, who for seven seasons has been the Met's most up-&-down performer. When she is good, she is very good; when she is bad, she is quite bad - and often she is both in the same evening. Her full-blown voice, rich and dark in the lower tones, sometimes climbs to an unsteady tremolo. As confused by her critics as they are by her, Milanov says : "You try to do your best to please the public, please critics, please...
...husband, Predrag Milanov, returned last month to Yugoslavia, where he will translate, then direct and act in Angel Street and Tobacco Road, at the state-owned Zagreb Theater. His wife, remaining here, will become a U.S. citizen in 1946. Says she: "When you come to America you get independent like American women...