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Producer Samuel Chotzinoff sent Soprano Price before the cameras without special makeup. At first sight, her striking features looked rather exotic, although the TV screen virtually wiped out the color contrast between her and other singers. But as Puccini's melodramatic opera proceeded, Soprano Price's quietly expressive acting began to tell and she became Floria Tosca, coquettish in the arms of her handsome lover (handsomely sung by Tenor David Poleri), murderous in the arms of the villainous police chief (Baritone Josh Wheeler), and distraught at her lover's death. Vocally, she was head and shoulders above...
...Opera Theater (Sun. 2 p.m., NBC). Puccini's Tosca, with Price, Poleri...
...piece orchestra (he worked on it for a year, on a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation). In preparation, Menotti made two afternoon field trips to Manhattan's Mulberry Street to get the flavor of his subject. He writes with absolute conviction in an idiom that was new when Puccini was young. His strings sing with silken suavity behind tender scenes, but brasses and percussion can also rasp and grump disturbingly. Tenor David Poleri (Michele) has a tongue-lashing, show-stopping aria (". . . You are ashamed to say: 'I was Italian' "), and Soprano Gloria Lane* as his mistress...
Kobayashi has also staged a musical version of Hamlet and an adaptation of Carmen. His production of Turandot, Puccini's Italianate tragedy of the Orient, became a vehicle for a truckin' chorus...
...Puccini: Tosco (La Scala Orchestra, chorus and soloists conducted by Victor de Sabata; Angel, 2 LPs). The familiar, gaudy music bursts into flame when Soprano Maria Callas digs into...