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...Opera Theater (Sun. 3 p.m.,NBC). Puccini's Sister Angelica...
...Symphony, conducted by Charles Munch, made its Manhattan debut this season with Mario Peragallo's Violin Concerto. The work, by Italy's rising Composer Peragallo (44), won a first prize in Rome's Twentieth-Century Music conference last spring. A slick combination of atonal technique and Puccini-like melody, it kept Violinist Joseph Fuch's fingers flying, pleased musical conservatives more than the radicals...
Rosanna Carteri, 23, guest star at Milan's La Scala, the Salzburg Festival, etc., had the crowd swooning from the moment she walked on stage as Mimi in Puccini's La Bohème. She reminded one critic of Italy's "gorgeous-looking, immensely skillful actresses," surprised everyone when her warm singing and touching performance equaled her looks. In her second opera, a sunny revival of Cherubim's The Portuguese Inn, the San Francisco Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein called her "the very incarnation of youthful feminine grace and vivacity." Even before she had appeared...
...Vienna-born Director Marek (a lifelong opera lover and author of a Puccini biography) has an answer. He thinks Americans are frightened by serious music, and he wants to "unscare" them. His reasoning: if he turns enough honest dollars on things like Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical Music and Opera Without Singing, he can afford to risk a few on more esoteric items. His own pet recording project: the huge (oversize symphony, chorus, soloists, four brass choirs) and presumably profitless Requiem by Berlioz. This way, he believes, everybody wins...
...running start this month when Florence opened its 17th Maggio Musicale. Like most of the bigger festivals, it combined showy elegance with serious endeavor. Gaudiest attractions were operas with attractive melodies shaded by silly plots: Spontini's rarely performed Agnes von Hohenstaufen, Weber's Euryanthe and Puccini's Girl of the Golden West. Euryanthe was presented in its uncut version and the audience learned to appreciate the program note from a Weber contemporary: "This man writes for eternity and so his operas never end." Other festival events were concerts under Wilhelm Furtwängler, Guido Cantelli...