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After 23 years in 76 roles at the Met, Basso Ezio Pinza, 56, opened in New Haven in his first musical, Broadway-bound South Pacific. His role: an island planter. Busy taking bows, he took time to say "au revoir and perhaps goodbye" to opera. "I am crazy to get into a straight play," he told an interviewer. "... I would have to have a strong part, a great lover or some other really dramatic role, and I think I would be good...
...production is wonderful--fast and beautiful and marvelously ingenious. And so is the supporting cast, especially Myron McCormick as Luther and Betta St. John as Liat. And so is Ezio Pinza, whose voice is such a miracle that it probably does not matter that the words he lavishes it on cannot be understood...
...Metropolitan Opera's brawny glamor boy, Basso Ezio Pinza, who has long had his eye on Hollywood,* took a step in that direction: he announced that he would play the lead in Rodgers & Hammerstein's new Broadway musical next winter...
When one thinks of Don Giovanni, the lady-killing Spaniard, one invariably also thinks of Ezio Pinza, in whose hands the Met's production of Mozart's opera has become a perennial success. Thursday evening was no exception: the Opera House was packed to the ceiling and Pinza stole the show. Or rather, Pinza made the show. It was unfortunate that with the exception of the rotund buffoonbass Salvatore Baccaloni, who sang Leporello, the supporting cast did not quite click. Charles Kullman as Don Ottavio gave an adequate performance of some of the best music of the opera...
...takes a great deal to spoil such a masterpiece as "Don Giovanni," and Messrs. Pinza and Baccaloni sang and clowned their way through three hours of Mozart with great success. With unique genius "Don Giovanni" portrays the interplay of two most fundamental of life's forces: religion and sex. In the cataclysmic conclusion of the opera, when the statue accepts the arrogant nobleman's invitation to dinner, we realize that it can be only a supernatural power which will bring Don Giovanni to his doom. Behind the opera's dramatic end is one of the greatest portrayals of right...