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...Chaliapin performance, just as in the opera the Tsar is haunted in his biggest scenes by the wraith of the young heir to the Russian throne, whom he has murdered. Last week, its last this season, the Metropolitan revived Boris for one of its best bassos, Ezio Pinza. Though Pinza was longer on voice than Chaliapin, and equal to him in build and makeup, critics agreed that the haunt still held...
...hero of Boris appears in only three of the long, episodic music drama's nine scenes,* must work hard to dominate its diffuse action. If Pinza failed to dominate, it was partly because the whole production was one of the finest the Metropolitan has mounted in years. Aside from the fact that it was sung in Italian, it would doubtless have pleased hard-drinking neurotic Modeste Moussorgsky, who, when he wrote the opera in 1873, attempted to make the People the protagonist, gave the chorus a great "Revolutionary Scene," in which he planted ideas which did not come...
Salute to 1939 (Sun. 2 p.m. NBC-Red, Blue) by Kirsten Flagstad, Ezio Pinza, Walter Hampden, Eva Le Gallienne, Walter Damrosch, Olsen and Johnson, Larry Clinton's orchestra on a special two-hour Magic Key program...
...saying, I became bored with my own conversation." As the $51,065-ton Italian liner Rex slid up New York Harbor, news spread over the ship that Europe was not going to war after all. Bursting with this glorious coincidence, Metropolitan Opera Stars Elisabeth Rethberg and Ezio Pinza exploded into super-canary song. Ex-Opera Star Beniamino Gigli, who left the Metropolitan in a huff six years ago when it threatened to cut his pay, and who was returning to the U. S. to sing on the radio, could not wait either. While stewards gasped, he gave everything...
...Basso Pinza stopped singing. "Little boy," he said, "stop waggling your foot." "Who, me?" said the urchin. "Yes, you," said Basso Pinza, waggling his own foot. "Please don't waggle your foot this way; it interferes with my tempo." The concert went...