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PUCCINI: MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Angel). Although nicknamed "Madama Butterball" by her more pernickety listeners, Renata Scotto still does her best to fulfill the image of the 15-year-old Japanese teenager, and has successfully made the role one of her specialties. Her rather metallic intonations are warmed by the richness of Rolando Panerai's baritone and Carlo Bergonzi's tenor, while Conductor Sir John Barbirolli exposes enough colors in the opera's palette to prove that it may not be so smart to sneer at Puccini's musicality...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). "The First Ladies of Opera," with Birgit Nilsson, Leontyne Price, Joan Sutherland and Renata Tebaldi in separate sequences highlighting their unique styles...
...Antony and Cleopatra, the scenery outweighed the music. La Traviata, Verdi's melancholy masterpiece, was buoyed by the stylish performances of Anna Moffo and Robert Merrill. La Gioconda, an en dearing old war horse, came vibrantly alive in an opulent but refreshingly conventional production, beautifully sung by Renata Tebaldi and Franco Corelli...
...uncannily near. A far cry, as they say, from Lincoln Center's State Theatre, where people sixteen rows back in the Orchestra shouted "Louder!" at Paul Schofield in King Lear. Cornell MacNeil stole the show in La Gioconda, and his duet with Franco Corelli brought down the house. Neither Renata Tebaldi nor Cesare Siepi were quite as brilliant, but the singing all around was fine. The Met is an avowed showcase for stars, and it was the stars who put over this museum piece...
...Plus Side. For their money they get the greatest roster of international talent in a longer season than any other opera house. Nowhere but at the Met, for almost any given performance, could two complete casts be mustered that would boast such operatic deities as Sopranos Renata Tebaldi and Leontyne Price, Tenors Richard Tucker and Franco Corelli, Baritones Robert Merrill and Tito Gobbi, Bassos Cesare Siepi and Nicolai Ghiaurov-not to mention a bevy of most attractive younger sopranos such as Anna Moffo, Teresa Stratas and Mirella Freni...