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...sweat. A Chilean trained for Italian and French opera, he had worked hard for over a year to huff himself into a German-style Heldentenor, and he was all set to sing his first Tristan, with Kirsten Flagstad as Isolde. San Franciscans (and Metropolitan Opera General Manager Rudolf Bing, who sorely needs a successor to Lauritz Melchior) were all set to hear him. But a fortnight ago, with debut day almost at hand, Tenor Vinay was bogged down in Chile. A stubborn Santiago impresario refused to let him leave the country until he fulfilled a delayed engagement. Last week, finally...
...last May by San Francisco Opera Maestro Gaetano Merola after one hearing in Florence, Soprano Tebaldi flew to San Francisco without pausing in Manhattan, planned to return to Italy after the Los Angeles season. There was just a possibility the Met might still catch up with her. Met Manager Rudolf Bing, with a reservation for another performance of Aïda, is due in San Francisco late this week...
...last season. Singing her first Zerlina in Don Giovanni, she left Met audiences goggle-eyed: the prodigy had become a person. Her Zerlina was so appealing, apt and masterful that it almost seemed as if Mozart had written it for her. On the strength of that performance, Met Manager Rudolf Bing has assigned her a prize role next season in the Met's first Fledermaus in 45 years...
...Francisco last week, Patrice was taking another turn, and at high speed. In her first major venture into show business, she was lifting listeners out of their seats with a pyrotechnical performance of the title role in Rudolf Friml's Rose Marie. Singing with "exquisite coloratura," she made some of Friml's most overworked ballads sound good. Wrote the San Francisco News's Emilia Hodel: "We would have considered it impossible for anyone ever again to make us enjoy Indian Love Call, but Patrice . . . made the song not only lovely but exciting...
...Unaccompanied Cello had moved the most undazzled of them to tears. When he put down his cellist's bow and took up the baton, he had called forth a fresh new spirit from the weariest fingers. With perfectionist Casals sitting before him in the audience, scholarly Pianist Rudolf Serkin had played through Bach's Goldberg Variations with a power and precision that transfigured Casals' round face...