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Cavalleria Rusticana, by Italian artists. La Scala chorus and the Milan Symphony under Lorenzo Molajoli (Columbia, $15) ?An authentic, full-blooded performance of Mascagni's only hit. Soprano Giannina Arangi Lombardi gives a vivid performance of the betrayed peasant girl...
Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy:* Opera: Cavalleria Rusticana by Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan (Victor, $13.50)-Mascagni's earthy melodrama expertly played on its home field. Conductor Carlo Sabajno captains an evenly matched team. Symphonic: Stravinsky's Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra by Igor Stravinsky and the Orchestra des Concerts Straram under Ernest Ansermet (Columbia, $6)-The composer provides the lace work for the Caprice which was played with great success this winter by Sergei Koussevitzky. Glazunov's Seasons by a Symphony Orchestra under Alexander Glazunov (Columbia...
...three camels, three elephants, eight horses to the Egyptian props. Impressive in the big concrete stadium will be vocal choruses, troupes of dancers, parades in full oriental pomp. Russian Diva Anna Lissetshaya will be Aida. National Broadcasting Co.'s Pasquale Rescigno will conduct. Later Samson et Dalila and Cavalleria Rusticana will be given. Then Im- presario Salmaggi will take his principals to Hartford, Providence, Chicago, Montreal ballparks, will present operas with the aid of local choruses, bands, dancers, animals...
Bystanders reflected on the havoc that uplift organizations might wreak by the purification of opera. Few plots are essentially nice; heroines are usually either unfortunate girls who have been seduced (Marguerite in Faust, Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana) or unfaithful ones (Nedda in Pagliacci, Fiora in L'Amore dei Tre Re, Mélisande in Pelléas et Mélisande, Isolde in Tristan und Isolde). In To sea the plot hinges on whether Tosca will give herself to Scarpia to save Cavaradossi. Double beds are the most important properties in Der Rosenkavalier. Don Giovanni is a series...
Many of Composer Pietro Mascagni's loud and pessimistic utterings seem prompted by a great personal grievance based on the failure of all his operas since Cavalleria in Rusticana. But his grounds for grumbling last week were broad, not personal. He had been commissioned to investigate the condition of opera in Italy on behalf of the Royal Academy at Rome. He had found: that of 100 opera houses only 15 are financially able to present a creditable winter season; that the reason is "the fictitious and arbitrary valuation'' of singers' services. To directors of the Academy...