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...Opera Theater (Thurs. n p.m., NBC). Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, with Herbert, Haskins, Marshall...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Gianni Schicchi, with Baccaloni, Peters, Madeira; and Salome, with Welitch, Svanholm...
...Metropolitan Opera's third opera in English this season. The first two, Fledermaus and Cosí Fan Tutte, were brilliant hits, in which almost every word came through clearly. But after listening to his singers maim a new translation of Puccini's one-act comic opera, Gianni Schicchi, Bing was about ready to concede that it might as well be sung in Bantu. In this, as it turned out at the performance the next night, Bing had merely anticipated public opinion...
...singers were in good voice. All of them acted their parts with lively bumptiousness, which was appropriate enough, since Gianni Schicchi is broad farce set to thin musical fare, and it needs all the guffaws it can get. But most of the time, only the strenuous antipasto English of Basso Salvatore Baccaloni in the title role could be clearly understood. The English-speaking singers mumbled through their mother tongue as if their diction could be taken for granted...
...Gianni Schicchi was just half of Bing's troubles that night. The second short opera on his double bill was Richard Strauss's lurid Salome, and this time the ear fared better than...