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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...
...second episode is a sober bit of flashbackery-an unmarried girl (Maj-Britt Nilsson) recalls, between labor pains, the lowlife who led her wrong. She remembers brooding in her room, when a note slid in over the sill: Will you open your door a little? She did, a little, and sat on the floor beside it. A glass of wine was pushed through the crack. She accepted it, and soon a small and very silly sculpture appeared in its place. She cradled the carving, and her reticent suitor started a Bergman serenade: "Just now my love is without end; Eternal...
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Birgit Nilsson, Fritz Uhl, Regina Resnik, Tom Krause; the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Georg Sold; London, 5 LPs). This first complete recording of the opera in stereo comes close to equaling London's celebrated stereo recording of Das Rheingold. The sound of the orchestra is glowing and massive, and Nilsson's voice soaring through it and over it is a delight. For those anxious to peek behind the scenes, London has included a bonus recording of a rehearsal explaining how it was done...
...Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). "Signs of Spring," a musical med ley with Birgit Nilsson, John Raitt, Mar tha Wright, Paul Hartman. Color...
...Metropolitan is bringing its sumptuous revival of Turandot to Boston this spring--with Nilsson, France Corelli, a great new Calaf, Anna Moffo as Liu, and Tozzi in his first performance as Timur. If it is at all possible that any seats still remain, snap them up: It will prove--I am absolutely sure--an unforgettable evening. However, if you discover that others have beaten you to it, console yourself by obtaining this recording. It, too, has its unforgettable moments...