Word: opera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paleface. Bob Hope in a comic horse opera (TIME...
...come and listen wanted two concerts a month and thought a $2 top for tickets about right; only 18% wanted an all-symphonic program. 58% wanted them "usually" symphonic; 75% preferred pianists as soloists; more wanted to hear contraltos than sopranos. But above all, Brooklyn wanted to have opera-at least in concert performance...
...Bright Promise. Last week, opera was among the things they got. For his new Brooklyn Symphony's first concert...
Verdi: Aïda (Beniamino Gigli, tenor; Maria Caniglia, soprano; Ebe Stignani, mezzo-soprano; Gino Bechi, baritone; Italo Tajo, bass, and others with the Rome Opera Orchestra and chorus, Tullio Serafin conducting; Victor, 40 sides). With such a cast, Aïda should have come off brilliantly; instead, it just barely comes off, with some good singing (Ebe Stignani's) and some bad (e.g., Gigli's Celeste Aïda is painful). Recording: fair...
Verdi: La Forza del Destine (Maria Caniglia, soprano; Ebe Stignani, mezzo-soprano; Galliano Masini, tenor; Tancredi Pasero, bass; Carlo Tagliabue, baritone, and others with the EIAR Symphony Orchestra and chorus, Gino Marinuzzi conducting; Cetra-Soria, 36 sides). Some of the singers made Verdi's less worthy opera sound far better than the Aïda. Recording: good...