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Every young operatic understudy dreams of divas being suddenly stricken just before the curtain goes up. To the Metropolitan's blonde, bosomy Regina Resnik, 24, the dream has become a monotonous reality...
...Plane to Bizet. Last week, Regina Resnik heard the familiar SOS again. At 2 o'clock in the morning, the telephone rang in her Manhattan hotel suite. Could she be in Montreal the next day to sing the title role in Bizet's Carmen? Soprano Winifred Hieidt had been taken ill in Chicago. Regina had sung the role in French only once, two years ago. She was still tired from a trip to Colorado, where she had sung Leonore in 13 performances of Beethoven's Fidelia. But by 2 p.m. she was on a plane for Canada...
Calm of Ignorance. Bronx-born Regina Resnik was beginning to feel the strain. Said she: "The other times, I guess I had the calm of ignorance, but now it is a nervous strain. I was really scared about Carmen." She was also a little wary of getting a reputation as an operatic spare tire. She had little cause to worry. Since she won the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air and made her surprise debut three years ago, she has sung in many a Met production-Toscx, A'ida, Cavalleria Rusticana, Madame Butterfly, etc. On the strength of such...
...Night Stand. In Regina, Sask., two women boarded a night train to Saskatoon, awoke next morning still in Regina, snowbound, stepped off to eat breakfast, returned to find the train gone...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5 p.m., ABC). World premiere of Bernard Rogers' and Norman Corwin's The Warrior, with .Baritone Mack Harrell, Soprano Regina Resnik. Also, Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel, with Soprano Rise Stevens, Soprano Nadine Connor, Baritone John Brownlee...