Word: musettas
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...than any Salome in memory. But she gave an overpowering impression of the willful, depraved teenager, from her disheveled entrance to her final kisses on the lips of John the Baptist's severed head. Soprano Goltz (a strikingly versatile singer with a repertory of 116 roles, ranging from Musetta to Elektra) is most famous for her appearances in Richard Strauss's operas in Vienna, and last week she proved why. She sang the fiendishly hard music with complete mastery and with silvery smoothness, even when her voice had to pierce through the orchestra's loudest blasts...
Maid for Figaro. She turned from the girlish Gilda to the worldly Rosalinda in Fledermaus, and brought that role, until then one of the weakest in the Met's comic hit, up to par or better. As the saucy Musetta in La Bohème, she was gay in her waltz song, movingly sympathetic with the dying Mimi in the last act. Last week she sang her first Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro. Her tone, as ever, was as pure and clear as a mountain stream; her coloratura was as neat as needlepoint. A singing actress who loves...
...players pretending to be real people, swarmed over the stage. The poet Rodolfo strolled in happily with his sweetheart Mimi, but his painter friend Marcello was in the dumps, and sang (in Italian): "Bring me an order of poison." He had just heard the jaunty voice of his faithless Musetta, who soon flounced in, all feathers and finery...
...Tanks. Patrice has loved audiences ever since she was twelve, when she played to her first one in Spokane, Wash. But it took her 13 hard years to make the love affair mutual. Last season she fairly stole the show as the saucy maid Adele in Fledermaus. Her flashing Musetta last week-her first time in the role-proved that she has reached the top of her operatic class. General Manager Rudolf Bing, a man who likes understatement, calls her a "superb soubrette-probably without competition at the moment...
...conducted the world premiere of Puccini's La Bohème in Turin in 1896, was to perform it again, on its 50th anniversary, over NBC. He had picked the Met's Licia Albanese for Mimi, Jan Peerce for Rodolfo. For the second feminine lead (Musetta) he had tried out 30 women, was satisfied with none. Then Met Conductor Wilfred Pelletier, who teaches at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, suggested a 20-year-old, plump, black-haired pupil of his, who so far had sung only in church choirs. At the tryout, Anne sang...