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...took her 13 hard years to make the love affair mutual. Last season she fairly stole the show as the saucy maid Adele in Fledermaus. Her flashing Musetta last week-her first time in the role-proved that she has reached the top of her operatic class. General Manager Rudolf Bing, a man who likes understatement, calls her a "superb soubrette-probably without competition at the moment...
...Good? Rudolf Bing is in the business of producing electrifying experiences. And that requires "singers who can perform in the modern theater." In the old days, a fine voice was usually enough. The Tetrazzinis and Rethbergs took a solid stance, opened their golden throats, and sang. Operagoers still demand, and get, fine voices, but most of them have now been conditioned by Broadway and Hollywood to demand something more: good-looking, cleanly directed and well-rehearsed casts. So the Met scouts keep hunting for all-round performers. Some of their latest diva-debutantes...
...Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Spike Jones; Victor). One of 30 current recordings of the song which was No. i on the small-fry hit parade last year. Jones packs away his customary fireworks, turns out a good disc for kids...
...Metropolitan Opera's Margaret Webster hoped "that the [opening night] audience will not look for anything especially startling or different in [our new] Aïda, for I don't think they will find it." That, as General Manager Rudolf Bing later remarked, was only because Margaret Webster had never seen Aïda before. To him, "it looks completely different-and I have seen it before...
Those in the gala audience who had also seen Aïda before were a good bet to side with Rudolf Bing on opening night this week. They would not even have to look around for something startling and different: the stunning new sets and costumes were designed to smack them right in the eyes...