Word: puccini
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...honor of a La Scala premiere is great, but the abuse is often greater. Verdi-happy Milan audiences, traditionally suspicious of new operas, have vented their scorn at scores of composers, including Puccini, whose Madame Butterfly took a fearful drubbing in 1904, and Menotti, whose Consul was hooted last year (TIME, Feb. 5, 1951). Last week a handsomely dressed full house in the 174-year-old Teatro alla Scala gave another honored visitor the works...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Puccini's La Bohème, with Albanese, Di Stefano, Gueden, Siepi...
Television Opera Theater (Thurs. 11 p.m., NBC). Puccini's Il Tabarro...
...been listening to a rehearsal of the Metropolitan Opera's third opera in English this season. The first two, Fledermaus and Cosí Fan Tutte, were brilliant hits, in which almost every word came through clearly. But after listening to his singers maim a new translation of Puccini's one-act comic opera, Gianni Schicchi, Bing was about ready to concede that it might as well be sung in Bantu. In this, as it turned out at the performance the next night, Bing had merely anticipated public opinion...
...Teacher Kennedy could not have loved whistling so much, loved she not music more. It was she herself who suggested turning the pucker towards Puccini. One day she said to Pat's mother: "Eunice, this child has a God-given voice. She should give up whistling and study voice." Twelve-year-old Pat was willing, provided she could keep up other activities that interested her. These included playing football (she once tackled a boy on the concrete sidewalk and broke his collarbone), baseball (two stitches in her forehead after being hit with a bat), and careening down Shoshone Place...