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...musical program began with "Concerto Per Due Pianoforti Soli," by Stravinsky. It was followed by songs by Berlioz, and by excerpts from "Lea Jeux d'Enfants," by Bizet. Assisting artists were: Patricia Neway, mezzo-soprano, Arthur Gold, pianist, Robert Fizdale, pianist, and John La Montaine, accompanist...
...York City Opera atoned for its delay with a brilliant production. With fine dramatic performances by Soprano Patricia (The Consul) Neway and Tenor Robert (Tales of Hoffmann) Rounseville, The Dybbuk was well worth the 18-year wait...
With this preoccupation, he has brought a new kind of singing actress to the fore. Menotti singers such as Marie Powers and his latest discovery, tall, dark-eyed, Brooklyn-born Patricia Neway, 27, the star of The Consul, may be vocally a step below the Met; dramatically they are well above...
Menotti stretched his libretto and music around a situation of almost completely unrelieved pathos and tragedy. His heroine, Magda Sorel (Soprano Patricia Neway), applies for a visa to join her resistance-leader husband, who has been hounded out of his unnamed country by the secret police. "The Consul" himself never appears; his secretary chants a bored refrain to all comers...
...Ethel Barrymore Theatre was already sold out through August. He had also brought up a new voice. Menotti-veteran Marie (The Medium) Powers, contralto, got her due from the audience for her moving performance as the resistance leader's mother. But it was tall, dark, Brooklyn-born Soprano Neway whose powerful denunciation aria in the second act stopped the show. When the curtain came down the new Broadway opera had to share the cheers with a new Broadway star...