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...first slated appearance this season of one of the Metropolitan Opera's biggest-drawing stars, Soprano Renata Tebaldi, was canceled fortnight ago when her mother had a severe heart attack. At week's end Diva Tebaldi, agreeing to appear despite her desperate anxiety to remain at her mother's bedside, was again due to take the stage (in a matinee Aïda). She never got near the Met. Mrs. Teobaldo Tebaldi died that morning. The singer, beside herself with grief, was put under heavy sedation. The only child of long-estranged Italian parents, Spinster Tebaldi...
...nearly a decade, those two warring soprano queens, Maria Meneghini Callas and Renata Tebaldi, have dominated the world of European (and U.S.) opera, leaving other postwar singers to peep about to find themselves honorable mention. But slowly, and largely unnoticed in the U.S., old Europe has fashioned a new crop of talented women singers. If none yet quite equals Callas, Tebaldi or the retired lioness of Wagnerian opera, Kirsten Flagstad, all have developed personal styles that promise fresh views of the operatic literature. Among the best of the new divas...
...onetime Cellist Arthur A. Hauser, cut Etude's staff from twelve to six. Last week, after prospecting without success for buyers, the foundation announced that Etude would fold with its May-June issue. Highlights of Etude's coda: a cover portrait of Beethoven, an interview with Soprano Renata Tebaldi, a biographical sketch of Composer Igor Stravinsky, and a lengthy obituary on Master Pianist Josef Hofmann...
...beloved Vesti la giubba (sung by Italian Tenor Mario Ortica as Canio) got a bigger hand. All in all, last week's "routine" performances were perhaps a better measure of the Met's real stature than the thrills provided by such exciting visitors as Maria Callas, Renata Tebaldi and Mario Del Monaco. For an ordinary night at the opera, the Met is tough to beat...
...Sullivan Show (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Renata Tebaldi and Richard Tucker sing an excerpt from La Bohème, but only a snippet because Ed & Co. think good mu sic is scaring away audience...