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...theatrical score. It ran for 75 minutes with no intermission, and put a considerable dent in the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's budget. Besides an augmented orchestra, it employed the 185-voice Westminster Choir and a group of soloists which included Metropolitan Opera Sopranos Nadine Conner and Jarmila Novotna, and two actors-Ballerina Vera Zorina, dressed in a white gown, as Joan, and Raymond Gerome (in tails) as Brother Dominic...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher, by Arthur Honegger and Paul Claudel; with Vera Zorina, Jarmila Novotna, Nadine Conner, and the Westminster Choir...
...including a seminude Venus who really earns her apple. The melodic champagne of its original score has been spiked (by Composer Erich Korngold) with heady draughts from a dozen other Offenbach operettas, including the Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman. Its Helen is sung by chestnut-haired Czech . Soprano Jarmila Novotna, one of the few opera stars who can fill the eye as well...
...Herr Walter conducted the Met's only opera-in-English: Smetana's The Bartered Bride. This was no victory for the vernacular; it seemed tactless to sing it in German, as has been done in the past, and no one but the soprano, Jarmila Novotna, could sing in the opera's native Czech...
...notable achievement of the Met's Manager Edward Johnson has been to hire lookers as well as singers. No other opera house of comparable artistic standards boasts such svelte and glamorous ladies as Czech Soprano Jarmila Novotna, Brazilian Soprano Bidu Sayao, U. S. Sopranos Helen Jepson, Grace Moore, Hilda Burke, Rose Bampton and Eleanor Steber (a West Virginia debutante of this month), U. S. Contraltos Risë Stevens and Gladys Swarthout...