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...weigh 250 pounds." The production, unhampered by clumsy stage machinery, had pace. Halasz had picked up some ideas from Broadway and Hollywood, including pretty girls in the chorus and the use of screen projections for scenery. The Met has snapped up ten of his singers, including Dorothy Kirsten, Regina Resnik, Polyna Stoska. His performances of off-beat operas like Ariadne auf Naxos, and Eugen Onegin play to near-capacity audiences...
...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...
...Montreal Festival Opera Company in McGill University's Molson stadium. The next day, she had hurried costume fittings, finished the preparations with a steak dinner. That night she gave a performance that made Montrealers forget the heat. Wrote the Montreal Gazette's Critic Thomas Archer: "Miss Resnik did a magnificent piece of work, considering that she had to substitute at the last moment. But an honest and accomplished artist can do just that...
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...
Says versatile Regina Resnik: "My career is still young enough so that every new thing is a new opportunity. As long as I have the nerve, I guess I will help out where...