Word: rigoletto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Rigoletto, with Tucker, Gueden, Warren...
HILDE GUEDEN, Vienna-trained soprano, who made her Met debut a fortnight ago as the girlish Gilda in Rigoletto, and will sing her first Rosalinda in Fledermaus this week, with Patrice as Adele...
...Metropolitan's Rigoletto had gone even longer (35 years) without new clothes than Aïida. Bing called in Painter-Designer Eugene Berman, and Berman's bright new costumes and sets were a perfect fit: they satisfied convention without slurring modernity. His solid 15th Century Italian ducal city glowed with faded pink marble and magnificent early Renaissance rooms; his costumes, like Aïda's, splashed with color...
...Pretty Debutante. Veteran Stage Director Herbert Graf did his part by freshening up Rigoletto's stage business. Verdi's music did the rest. Brilliantly paced by Conductor Alberto Erede, and magnificently sung and acted by a pair of Americans who are fast becoming one of the finest teams in Met history, Leonard Warren (Rigoletto) and Richard Tucker (the Duke), Rigoletto had even Olin
Criticism or Insult? Is it insulting for a critic to write that a Rigoletto chorus sounded like "a bunch of miniature pinschers"? Indeed it is, cried 48 members of Austria's Graz Opera chorus, and they sued Critic Richard Ahne of the Graz Steirerblatt for likening them to yelping dogs...