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Just the Answer. Victor, which hauled out its venerable old Victrola label to kick off its new line, offers a rich lode of glittering bargains ($2.50 for each mono LP, $3 for stereo). Among them: Puccini's Tosca with Soprano Zinka Milanov; Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" with Pierre Monteux and the Boston Symphony; and Brahms's Concerto No. 2 with Russian Pianist Emil Gilels backed by Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony. Vanguard Records' new line, Everyman, includes a fine performance of Haydn's Creation, conducted by Mogens Wo¨ldike...
...PORTRAIT OF MANON (RCA Victor). Soprano Anna Moffo is ideally gifted to sing Manon-both Puccini's and Massenet's. In this two-LP collection of scenes from both operas, she enhances Puccini by shading and softening the music where it is too bold, then enriches Massenet with a vivid, vibrant performance of his pastel score...
...Puccini: Tosca (RCA Victor). With Leontyne Price, Giuseppe di Stefano and Giuseppe Taddei, Conductor Herbert von Karajan has the finest Tosca cast that can be assembled today. Price surpasses Callas as the reigning Tosca, and Di Stefano and Taddei match their best past performances as Cavaradossi and Scarpia...
Concert revivals of Poppea have been used to striking effect, but Dallas tried to preserve the late-Renaissance splendor of the original production. If most of the opening-night Texans agreed with Dallas Times Herald Music Critic Eugene Lewis, who wrote "Puccini it isn't," some of them also realized that without Monteverdi, Puccini might never have been...
Died. Rosa Raisa, 70, Russian-born U.S. soprano who created the role of Turandot when Puccini's opera premiered at La Scala, reigned as a top American diva throughout the 1920s, when, backed by Utility King Samuel Insull and directed by Mary Garden, the Chicago Opera enjoyed international esteem; after a long illness; in Los Angeles...