Word: scala
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home to Italy; opera in the U.S., he said, was "dying." Last week, at 74, Conductor Serafin was back in the U.S., ready to admit that his pessimism may have been premature. After half a century of conducting in such world-famed opera houses as Milan's La Scala, Rome's Royal Opera and Buenos Aires' Teatro Colón, Maestro Serafin had signed up to lead the Italian wing at Manhattan's lively young City Opera...
...sensible arrangement between a man and a woman who liked and respected each other ..." Vacationing in Venice last week with her second husband, Manhattan Advertising Executive Ray Vir Den, she had a fatal stroke 36 hours before they were to hear Old Friend Toscanini conduct at La Scala...
Aside from the big names so dear to Victor's catalogue, there are good performances by less famous musicians: Guido Cantelli and Milan's La Scala Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5; the late Fritz Busch with the Danish State Radio Symphony Orchestra in Haydn's Symphony No. 88; Sir Adrian Boult and the BBC Symphony in Hoist's The Planets...
Director Francesco Siciliani had combed through the composer's entire output to find six representative operas. He chose Armida (composed in 1817), Il Conte Ory (1828), Tancredi (1813), La Scala di Seta (1812), La Pietra del Paragone (1812) and William Tell (1829). Florence critics relished all of them, singled out the "scenic and choreographic spectacle" of Armida, hailed Ory as the "first musical comedy of the 19th century," called La Pietra "second only to The Barber of Seville." But the lid came off for Tell...
Composer Berg's white-haired widow Helene sat in La Scala's royal box, approved : "Everything was right." Said Milan's Il Popolo: "This performance will remain in La Scala's history...