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...nearly a minute, the famed old soprano held her entrance pose, seemingly genuinely startled at the cheers and the cries of "Maria!" Then she came front & center and made a deep curtsy that was a production in itself. From there on, the show was hers (with Patrice Munsel's Adele a close second). But instead of running away with it, she played it with reserved authority, grace, wit and charm...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Die Fledermaus, with Marguerite Piazza, Risë Stevens, Patrice Munsel...
...lyric tenors of the quality of Jussi Bjoerling and Richard Tucker: baritones such as Leonard Warren and Robert Merrill; bassos such as Jerome Hines and Cesare Siepi; and dramatic sopranos such as Helen Traubel and Kirsten Flagstad, not to mention the good looks and comic flair of a Patrice Munsel...
...Tenor Set Svanholm occasionally staggered like a fugitive from Götterdämmerung. Red-haired Soprano Ljuba (Salome) Welitch sometimes overacted her Rosalinda. Antony Tudor's ballroom ballet was a sour grape. But the singing and acting of the Met's 25-year-old Coloratura Patrice Munsel (as Adele) made up for all of that. Slim, pretty Patrice twice stopped the whole show cold. Her first show-stopping smash, delivered (with the help of new lyrics by Howard Dietz) with far-from-bashful bumps and grinds...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, with Patrice Munsel and Cornel Wilde...