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Mussorgsky: Boris Godunoff (Ezio Pinza and the Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus, Emil Cooper conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). Most listeners will probably prefer Kipnis' fine Russian version (TIME, June 4) to Pinza's Italian. Performance: good. Recording: good...
...tour, as well as in the Met's big, money-making Manhattan season, the traditional enthusiasm for Verdi and Wagner was being challenged by an increased popular demand for the lighthearted operas of Mozart. Many suspected that this de mand for Mozart was really a demand for Ezio Pinza - the brawny, lusty-voiced, 52-year-old basso who sings the Mozart scores to a fare-ye-well. As Don Giovanni, Figaro and Sarastro (in The Magic Flute} the former Italian bicycle racer had be come the Met's most reliable attraction...
...keep U.S. newspaper editors interested in Basso Pinza, his agents are now circulating a glossy, 60-page book which describes the singer as "a bronze Roman god come to life [and] one of the 14 most glamorous men in the world. . . ." He "sends chills down feminine spines." The press book urges household editors to mull over Pinza's recipe for Verona fish pudding; farm editors are assured that he is a poultry breeder. Pinza fans, under the spell of their hero, see nothing amiss in this ballyhoo: they consider him every bit as good as the overblown Pinza publicity...
...Newcomers. Last week both claque and audience found several things worth applauding. One was the singing of the great Italian bass, Ezio Pinza; as Mephistopheles and as Don Giovanni, he proved again that he is the Metropolitan's brightest star. Another was the expert conducting of Hungarian-born George Szell, who, since the departure of Sir Thomas Beecham and Bruno Walter, is the Met's finest maestro. During the opening week six young U.S. singers made their first Metropolitan appearances. Of them, the likeliest future headliners seemed...
...Ezio Pinza, Metropolitan Opera star, took precautions against dog homesickness as he handed his Dalmatians, Boris and Figaro, over to Dogs for Defense. With the dogs, long accustomed to his house-filling basso, he sent records of their master's voice...