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Voice of Firestone (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Guests: Robert Merrill, Anna Moffo and Martha Wright...
Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Rhonda Fleming, Mischa Elman, Anna Moffo, Nicolai Gedda, Earl Wrightson and Benny Goodman and his orchestra sing and make music. Color...
...produces plenty of good voices, but it frequently falls short when it comes to exercising them: the likes of Leontyne Price and Anna Moffo had to go to European houses to learn how to sing with professional skill. A major exception to that failing is Soprano Phyllis Curtin, who made an immensely successful Metropolitan Opera debut this season in Cosi fan Tutte. Soprano Curtin was also a smash in Europe before she came to the Met, but her European success merely topped off a career patiently built in America. Last week, as she followed a superbly rousing performance of Strauss...
Tracked down in Venice by frantic transatlantic phone calls, holidaying Soprano Anna Moffo, 26, jetted home posthaste to take over from ailing Australian Joan Sutherland in the San Francisco Opera's opening-night performance of Lucia di Lammermoor. Delighted by her rapid rise in what she describes as "dog eat dog" divasville, the handsome, Pennsylvania-born singer was less than delighted with the fast flight, exhaustedly proclaimed: "I'm violently against the jet-and-taxi age; the prima donna of 50 years ago had it much better with the slow boat and the horse and buggy...
Negotiations Resumed. But no one was prepared to call the canceled season irretrievably lost. Most of the Met singers were behaving as if they expected to be back at the old stand in the fall. Only two-Sopranos Birgit Nilsson and Anna Moffo-had announced their availability to other opera houses. In response to a pleading wire from Soprano Leontyne Price (who was to open the Met season in Girl of the Golden West), Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg called Bing and the union and offered his negotiating services to New York Mayor Robert Wagner. At week...