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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...
Three years ago, in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, Soprano Resnik was dropped at the eleventh hour into the formidable role of Leonore in II Trovatore, which she had never even seen staged. She brought down the house. Last February, the Metropolitan gave her three hours' warning that she was to sing Cio-Cio-San in Madame Butterfly on the radio. She had never sung the role before and she had had no rehearsal. But fast study, plenty of self-assurance and a big, warm voice carried her through...
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...
Although she had done a good deal of miscellaneous operatic trouping, Soprano Resnik had never sung the taxing lead role of Leonora in Trovatore. Twenty-four hours before curtain time, Manager Edward Johnson offered her the chance. She spent the next morning fitting costumes. Then, in an hour and a half, she learned the stage business. At 4:30 in the afternoon her foresighted mother cooked her a mammoth steak dinner...
...Regina Resnik sang Leonora with a big, warm voice, an accurate technique and plenty of self-assurance. Afterward she stayed up all night waiting for the reviews in the late editions of the morning papers. They acclaimed hers as the most promising of all the Metropolitan's debuts this season...