Word: nicolai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...here, and it is unlikely that anyone could be more eloquent. He does not set the Dies Irae ablaze as Toscanini did, but his performance has a steady incandescence. Honors also go to London's Philharmonia Orchestra, its huge chorus, and the four soloists, Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Tenor Nicolai Gedda, Bass Nicolai Ghiaurov, and the especially lustrous Mezzo-Soprano Christa Ludwig...
EVENING BELLS AND OTHER RUSSIAN FOLK SONGS (Capitol). Dark nostalgia dished out by Metropolitan Opera tenor, Nicolai Gedda, with the help of the Cappella Russian Male Chorus and some balalaikas. "Gedda was born in Sweden of a Russian father, and he sings of the snow-swept steppes, the willows and the fields of rye like one of the dispossessed...
...composer can expect to find in all Christendom. Attempting "smiling satire," Menotti has a Vassar girl (Roberta Peters) go to India in search of the Abominable Snowman. Her father (Morley Meredith) meets a maharajah and arranges a marriage of convenience between his daughter and the maharajah's son (Nicolai Gedda). But the girl is an anthropologist, and she insists upon her savage. Her father offers a peasant (George London) $100,000 to play the role, and the ersatz savage allows himself to be packed off to Chicago...
...Manon's virgin youth, the stage is warmed by springtime; in her Parisian tryst, the shabbiness of the curtains and walls is almost a state of mind; when she dies, her lover's desolation is framed in a lane of twisted tree stumps. Anna Moffo and Nicolai Gedda as Manon and the Chevalier Des Grieux seemed nervous with the French libretto, but Conductor Thomas Schippers had a poetic command of the music...
...Voice of Firestone (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Highlights from Gounod's Romeo and Juliet, with Roberta Peters, Nicolai Gedda, William Walker...