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Soprano Albanese was "all emotional." Backstage, she had the same hairdresser, the same wardrobe mistress, and the same prompter she had for her La Scala debut (in Gianni Schicchi) in 1936. But Albanese had apparently forgotten that Italians like their opera loud. Never noted for a big voice, in Madame Butterfly she concentrated on her acting; not once did she break a dramatic sequence to turn, in full voice, toward the audience. Moaned one critic after the first act: "Albanese has returned, but she left her voice in America...
...Opera (Sun. 3 p.m., NBC). Puccini's Gianni Schicchi...
Puccini: II Tabarro, Gianni Schicchi (Cetra-Soria, 2 sides LP each). These two one-acters, with Suor Angelica, make up Puccini's Triptych, which had its world premiere at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House in 1918. Gianni Schicchi, which still survives at the Met, is a bright and appealing piece of foolishness. In this recording, it is a roaring fine vehicle for first-rate Baritone Giuseppe (Falstaff) Taddei. Il Tabarro (The Cloak) is Puccini at his most melodramatic blood & thundering. These Radio Italiana performances give both operas their full due; so does the recording...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, and Strauss's Salome...
...Pacific Railway Co. He took a nonsinging role in Roberta for two years, made his baritone debut last summer singing Gilbert & Sullivan in St. Louis and Central City, Colo. To replace Baritone Julius Huehn, he went to Chicago fortnight ago to sing star parts in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Gruenberg's Jack & the Beanstalk, was engaged to repeat the performance. The latter role requires a shrill falsetto. Undaunted, Baritone Middleton boasted: "I have a freak voice, a peach of a falsetto. I'd make a good yodler...