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Puccini: Tosco (La Scala Orchestra, chorus and soloists conducted by Victor de Sabata; Angel, 2 LPs). The familiar, gaudy music bursts into flame when Soprano Maria Callas digs into...
Puccini: Tosco (Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Tito Gobbi; Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala conducted by Victor de Sabata; Angel, 2 LPs). The seventh complete version of Puccini's old pulse-bumper, and one of the best. The name part is sung fervently and in high style by Brooklyn-born Soprano Callas...
...musician, whose skepticism quickly turned to astonishment. At 4½, she made her Rome debut at the St. Cecilia Academy. A few months later, she appeared in Spain, South America and Paris, and was touted by such famed conductors as Wilhelm Furtwängler and Victor de Sabata (for whom she named her doll)-all before she could read a note of music. When she was seven, Gianella decided she wanted to conduct opera, buckled down for ten months of study. She made her debut with Traviata, in Ravenna, and now knows 18 operas...
Victor de Sabata, chief conductor at Milan's La Scala Opera, appearing in San Francisco as a guest conductor, had interruption troubles, too. Midway through Brahms's Third Symphony, he turned his back on the orchestra, held up his hand to stop the music. On the verge of verbally chastising a murmuring sector of the audience, words failed him, but the murmuring stopped. Later, after a second dose of the silent treatment, the noisemakers got the point. At the end of the concert, Conductor de Sabata bowed to louder-than-ordinary applause...
Argentina's foremost composer, Juan José Castro,* 57, had reason to believe he would fare pretty well. A panel of distinguished judges, including Stravinsky, Honegger and La Scala's principal conductor, Victor de Sabata, had picked his Proserpina and the Stranger over 137 other entries (16 from the U.S.) in La Scala's international contest for the best three-act opera. A philosophical soul, Castro was surprised but not overwhelmed at winning the contest. Said he: "I am always prepared for things not to go well. For me, submitting the opera was like playing the lottery...