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Died. Michael Delia Rocca, 62, the Long Island shoemaker who answered The $64,000 Question on CBS-TV in 1956 (a 14-part question involving Wagner premières, Caruso's teachers and a 1908 performance of Aïda), was never involved in subsequent scandals, spent much of his prize bankrolling his hobby, amateur opera performances; of cancer; in Baldwin...
...tale of dissolution that unfolded before the first-night audience in Venice's Theater of St. John and St. Paul had the tang of vintage Tennessee Williams. It was rife with adultery and assassination, seduction and suicide, torture and a touch of transvestism. But the première took place 321 years ago, the format was operatic, and its author was the revered "father of modern opera" himself, Claudio Monteverdi...
...CHILDREN'S THEATER (NBC, 6-7 p.m.). Premiére of a new show for young children. Tonight a musical adaptation of James Thurber's fantasy, The Great Quillow. Color...
...preposterous plot is meant to be a mocking comment on contemporary society, and Composer Gian Carlo Menotti intended to blend it all into a witty comic opera. But when The Last Savage was given its world premiére at Paris' Opera-Comique last week, the satiric fun was blanketed with annoyed disappointment. In his first comedy since The Telephone in 1947, Menotti had fallen well below his usual mark, with a tiresome, lurching, seldom funny libretto and a derivative score that even in its academic jokes was hardly musique sérieuse...
...beginning of an operatic tour d'art that is the best news of the Met's new season. In what Met Manager Rudolf Bing calls "the Schippers festival," the young conductor will lead the orchestra in at least 36 performances of four operas, including the première run of Gian Carlo Menotti's Last Savage. At 24, Schippers was one of the youngest conductors ever to appear at the Met; now, nine years later, he is established as the best conductor of opera yet born in America...